Sneak peek at the O'Connell Pub
A sneak peek at the O'Connell Pub on September 7, 2023, ahead of the reopening.
Transcript
00:00 Welcome to the O'Connell Hotel.
00:04 Come in.
00:07 We've decided to take the original pool room and claim it again.
00:11 This used to be a dining room under the previous public and prior to that it always was a pool room.
00:17 So we've returned it to its former glory.
00:19 There's a jukebox behind us here.
00:22 So, you know, this will be a really fun room.
00:26 Return to its former glory.
00:30 Yeah, the good old days basically.
00:37 So there's still a lot of work going on here obviously, but the biggest change has been to the bath.
00:41 It's completely been renovated with all the new shelving, all the new cabinetry.
00:48 We no longer have B-taps running through the ground with the step.
00:51 They've been re-routed from the pool room down here into the taps.
00:56 Probably the most significant thing if you come around the corner here is this is now an additional service area.
01:04 So there's four new taps there.
01:05 So there's 10 taps in total up from what we previously had.
01:11 This room used to be full of perky machines and it's now a lovely little lounge room, lovely sitting room.
01:17 Still in progress, we've got another lounge coming and a couple more chairs, but it'll be a nice cosy room.
01:24 The pavers, they were really bucky and hazardous.
01:29 So we've redone that and sourced the old concrete bricks and redid the bricks around for the tree.
01:35 We've put in all new headstood.
01:40 So this never used to have any heating or some horrible fluoro lights.
01:44 So we just sort of fancied it up a little bit.
01:49 So this used to be the old pool table room, Gaeb's room, but it didn't really get used very much for dining.
01:56 So we've got this beautiful room and it's nice and light.
01:59 So the veranda room has come out of that.
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