Pub of the Month Nelligen’s Steampacket Hotel
Words and Images: Colin Whelan
Right at the start, let’s get the ‘g’ in ‘Nelligen’ sorted.
The name’s apparently based on phonetic versions of the indigenous moniker for the locality and in the very early days was known variously as Nellican and Nellikeng. So the ‘g’s pronounced hard like the ‘g’ in ‘gonad’ and NOT soft as in ‘vagina’.