LIKE OLD TIMES.-At about midday on Thursday, a young man drove up to the front of the Royal Hotel, in Molesworth-street, Lismore, got out of the sulky, took the horse out and tied him up to the post, and politely left them… Read More ›
“Time gents, drink ’em up”, was the barman’s call as six o’clock approached and the taps were turned off for another day. The six o’clock swill was Australian and New Zealand slang for the last-minute rush to buy drinks before 6pm… Read More ›
NOT many countries can boast of a pub dump – made-up of rum, whisky, gin, brandy and beer bottles – with a government heritage listing. Australia can. At Innamincka, a small settlement 821km north-east of Adelaide – with a population… Read More ›
DRINKERS at the Australia Hotel bar are all “boys” to Elfreda Hall, 33-year old barmaid who this week became internationally known. The reason was that 16 US Marine Corps officers (all “ordinary fellas”) in Virginia, who drank at Freda’s… Read More ›
The missing sign mystery WHAT ever happened to the large Hotel Victor sign that was sold for just $5 at auction in February 1990? Christina Nixon of Allenby Gardens bought the sign off the pub at Victor Harbour, South Australia,… Read More ›
WE wonder whether the traveller who camped under this well known hotel sign on the Pittsworth Road (Darling Downs, South West Qld) appreciated the humour of the situation. – The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld) Thursday 30 November 1933.
By MICK ROBERTS © THE bloodied body of 29-year-old George Norton, found at the rear steps of the Southern Cross Hotel in Adelaide one Summer night in 1954 immediately sparked the suspicion of authorities. Police at first suspected foul play, but… Read More ›
Hotel bar staffs through out Canberra were “flat out” yesterday, bottle departments were “booming” and beer gardens were “chock-a-block” on the first “wet” Sunday in the ACT. A spokesman for the Statesman Hotel at Curtin said the hotel’s three… Read More ›
THE site of the Darlingford Hotel now sits at the bottom of Lake Eildon, a rock and earth-fill embankment dam across the Goulburn River, between the regional towns of Mansfield and Eildon in Victoria. Darlingford, named after Sir Charles Darling,… Read More ›
INNER west Sydney’s diminishing art-deco architecture was the focus of our road trip when Time Gents visited four pubs in and around Marrickville late last month. A relatively short drive from our inner-city base, is the destination we like to… Read More ›
Keeping the constable’s beer cool THE transfer recently of a senior constable, to a northern Victorian town calls to mind an amusing incident that occurred years ago when the senior, before his promotion, was a constable on street duty in… Read More ›