ACCOMMODATION SUNBURY VIC

With its warm timber floors, exposed brick wall, beautiful oversized pendant lights and open plan kitchen, Roquette Bar and Grill provides a warmth and atmosphere hard to find. Roquette Bar and Grill's open frontage, large communal table, outdoor dining area as well as bench seating which lends itself to large or small bookings, is the perfect compliment to the fresh and clean flavours that hit our tables each day. Providing a contemporary modern Australian menu we have a heavy European influence and a complete love of fresh produce which contribute to our daily specials and menus. Please contact Roquette Bar and Grill should you wish to organise your next private function there....

Drive 40 minutes north from Melbourne?s CBD and discover a region full of award-winning vineyards and iconic wildlife along with a growing foodie scene. Plan out your itinerary over a morning brew and watch the jumbo jets landing at nearby Tullamarine Airport. Sunbury is also famous as the birthplace of The Ashes, international cricket's coveted trophy. Cricket history records that when Australia won against England at The Oval in London 1882, The London Times announced the death of English cricket. Shortly after this, when the English team toured Australia, a social match was played by the two teams at Rupertswood Mansion. Tradition has it that after the game the bails were burnt and the ashes presented to the English captain, thereby beginning the famous tradition. Rupertswood Mansion now hosts festivals and weddings amid its grand rooms, extensive gardens and wine cellar, while luncheons and heritage tours are held year-round. Sunbury is home to the state's oldest homestead, Emu Bottom, which was built in 1836. Emu Bottom now offers tailored tastes of Australia's pioneering history, including music by a bush band and various bush tucker-eating experiences. Uncover more of Sunbury's rich past on a tour taking in the old Sunbury Courthouse, the bluestone homestead at Craiglee Vineyard, and what's left of Aitken's Gap Gaol. Use the town as an ideal starting point for a tour of the celebrated Sunbury Wine Region. Meet the winemakers and taste at the cellar doors of the numerous wineries in the region including two historic wineries, Goonawarra (1863) and Craiglee Vineyard (1864). Sunbury is approximately 40 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, or around 40 minutes by car along the Tullamarine Freeway and the Sunbury Road....

Sunbury Historical Tours provides an informative and educational guided walking tour of Sunbury's former Industrial School for Children, Lunatic Asylum and Women's Refractory Prison Compound. Providing tourists with the opportunity to discover what institutional living was really like around the turn of this Century. This is a truly 'fascinating journey' back through time. Walk through the hospital's admissions office, male hospital ward, male criminally insane ward, morgue and women's refractory prison compound. Explore various external buildings that include the industrial school hospital, boiler house, female workers block, staff mess rooms, nurses home, new hospital for the insane, kitchen, and ha ha walls, as well as the institutional grounds. On display are copies of original photographs of patients who were incarcerated in this hospital 100 years ago, copies of original admission files, newspaper reports, relics that have been recovered from the hospital grounds, and various other displays. Guides will discuss the roles staff had played during their employment here and processes that were associated with the admission of new patients, escapees, and deaths, and individual patient stories detailing reasons why these people were admitted. Tour groups will learn about the various medical treatments that were administered during this time, seclusion cells, padded cells and various other forms of restraints used on patients, as well as the eventual decommissioning of these buildings. Bookings are essential and tickets. Tours run for two hours on Saturday nights from 7pm till 9pm....