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Ruined pub with the oak tree
Ruined pub with the oak tree is a real location in Newcastle, New South Wales, named across the written works of C. W. Smith. Likely the Crystal Palace Hotel (1973 riot). It is plotted on the Literary Atlas of Newcastle among the city's city & civic sites.
Across the works
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A pub in 'the late stages of natural deconstruction', an oak growing through it; its closing once triggered one of the country's biggest urban riots.
the site of an old pub… that is in the late stages of natural deconstruction… triggered one of the biggest urban riots in the history of our country— A Complicated Surgery…