Ravenswood is about 80kms south east of Charters Towers. There’s not much out here but cattle that wander about the road and dry creek beds. An enormous mullock heap is a dead give away that there’s mining going on though. Small mullock heaps and old brick chimneys dot the landscape and a handful of old buildings. A post office / general store, a museum, hall and two live pubs. We choose the a Railway Hotel, the pub that advertises the coldest beer in Qld and are not disappointed. Hey, they use glycol as a coolant which means a lot to a Victorian beer drinker! Even red wine is kept in the fridge in these parts. The locals reckon that fridge temperature is room temperature in Europe. I reckon they may be right. Charlie the owners’ Dad is a Victorian too so that explains the ice cold beer. Anyway Charlie and the barmaid both like a chat, lunch is good and the three storey pub is as close as you could get to original condition. During the war the pub housed a Townsville boarding school, to keep the young girls out of harms way while the real boarding school became a barracks for troops.