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7 November, 2025
Celebration 190 years in the making
One of the state’s most iconic pubs, The George IV Inn in Picton, will be throwing its doors open to the public on Saturday, November 29 for a celebration almost 200 years in the making.
One of the state’s most iconic pubs, The George IV Inn in Picton, will be throwing its doors open to the public on Saturday, November 29 for a celebration almost 200 years in the making.
The pub will be hosting a day of activities to celebrate its 190th birthday and is encouraging local residents to keep the date free in their calendars.
The activities will kick off at 11am with a focus on families and will include face painting, balloon twisting, a kids’ magician, a mechanical bull and a jumping castle.
From 4pm the focus will be on live entertainment presented by Out West Country Events.
The entertainment will be free with tickets now available on Eventbrite.
The ‘awesome’ line up will include Jamie Preston, Carly Mozny, Zak Armstrong, Sarah Catania and Brock Rodziewicz with plenty of other activities planned for the night including interactive line dancing and giveaways.
The historic inn, built in 1835, is one of the nation’s oldest pubs and has bounced back to its former glory after being decimated by flooding in 2016.
The damage forced the pub to close for almost two years – its first closure in more than 180 years and one that many people feared would be permanent.
The George IV is regarded as an iconic part of Picton and has been described by Hume MP Angus Taylor as an institution of the region.
Over the years it has been used as a filming location for a number of movies and television shows.
The pub has a rich convict history. It was built by convicts using local hand-hewn sandstone and convicts being transported from Sydney to Berrima Gaol were kept shackled overnight in the pub’s cellar.
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