Walsh Bay & Millers Point
Historical Walking Tour & Lunch

Saturday 18th may 2024

$115 per person includes:
1 hour and 45 minute historical walking tour
2 course set lunch menu with choice PLUS bread and snacks

tour details:

10am to start to be seated for lunch at 12pm

Tours start and finish at Ventuno

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MERCHANTS, MYSTERIES & PUBS tour

In the year 1900, just a stone’s throw away from the present site of Ventuno restaurant, a dark discovery was made by a doctor within a humble house on a cobbled lane. As a result, the historic harbourside village of Millers Point would soon be re-possessed by the government and re-forged into the wool-centric workings of Walsh Bay. 

Where more than a dozen sea-faring pubs had once stood humming with sailors, larrikins and locals alike, only three 19th century hotels would soon remain. Where once the elegant mansions of merchant princes gazed over private stores and wharves, rows of heavy brick terraces would begin to line the suburb’s streets. 

As we roam the cobbled alleys, timber wharves and spectacular lookouts of this notorious neighbourhood, we’ll unpack the forgotten lives of its local scallywags, sailors, smugglers and legends. We’ll delve into local murders and mysteries, evoke the secrets of ancient pubs and get to know the Millers Point Push — a 19th century street gang who once robbed and terrorised the area to keep their criminal control intact.