Happy result:Norma and Curtis Hancock with Save Our Store campaigners including Christine Mierisch,seated,front right,and Liz Monty,standing left,in green.

Norma is almost 90. She just bought a beloved general store in regional Victoria

The heart of the town of Guildford will beat again when the century-old store reopens this weekend.

  • Carolyn Webb

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Exterior of the Guildford Family Hotel.

Guildford Family Hotel

Country pub grub in a historic setting.

  • Richard Cornish
Exterior of the Guildford Family Hotel in Guildford,country Victoria.

10 of Victoria’s best regional pubs worth planning a road trip around

What’s even better than a long pub lunch? A long pub lunch in the country! These venues are the real deal,with food,drinks and settings worth planning a trip around.

  • Richard Cornish
The Guildford general store building when it was the Commercial Hotel,before 1916.

This town’s only store has closed. Now heartbroken locals are banding together to buy it

A campaign to save a town’s historic general store is asking the community to pitch in $5000 per person to help raise the money needed.

  • Carolyn Webb