This hotel, first
licensed in 1876 by Margaret StLawrence of Greville Street, Prahran, was
built on the corner of Palmerston Crescent and Roy Street (now King’s
Way). In the 1950s, Ma Munro, whose picture still graces the wall of the
Palmerston Hotel today, managed the pub.An Irish immigrant, Munro sponsored many a young Irishman’s immigration
to Australia and they formed
her bar staff.The Geaney family bought
the hotel in the 1980s together with three houses next to the pub that no
longer exist.
The removal of personnel from both the BP House on Albert Road and the Defence
Centre on St Kilda Road has adversely
affected patronage of the hotel, which has several regulars, few of whom are
locals.
