A POPULAR INNOVATION Much interest attached to the opening of a “beer garden” at the Club Hotel, Burnie (Tasmania) on Saturday evening, because it was the first time the idea, which has proved popular on the mainland, had been tried… 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 the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © SYDNEY’S remaining wharfie pubs are far and few between, where brawls were common and thirsts were big. Down on Sussex Street, towards Darling Harbour, can be found a pub from that era, although its ‘blood… Read More ›
A pub filled with history McCONKEY’S Hotel has been a landmark at Bodalla [on the NSW South Coast] for many years, and is overflowing with history. Established in 1875 and owned by The Bodalla (Pastoral) Company until the 1930s… Read More ›
RELEASED FROM CIVIC DUTIES, Mr. A. E. Laws, ex-Labor alderman, helps to quench Sydney’s thirst from behind the bar of the Australian Hotel, in Market Street. – The Daily Telegraph December 22 1927. The Australian Hotel, which traded on the north-east corner of Kent and Market Streets, Sydney,… Read More ›
The Queen waving a greeting from the balcony of the Hotel Gollan, Lismore to the wildly enthusiastic crowds in the street below. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh spent Tuesday night at the Hotel Gollan. – Warwick Daily News Thursday February 11 1954. WHO would have… Read More ›
Taffy has his corner The Ainslie Rex Hotel has honoured one of its consistent and oldest drinkers – a 69 year-old Welshman. He is Taffy Shepherd, pictured, of Ainslie (ACT). Taffy sits in one corner of the hotel every day… Read More ›
OLD DUNMORE ARMS HOTEL BRISBANE newspaper, The Week on December 7 1923, published images of two pubs that graced the corner of George and Elizabeth Streets in the Queensland capital. The first pub on the corner was the Dunmore Arms… Read More ›
Bigger, Better beer garden for Sydney Licensee Jack Thomas, of the Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay, is planning one of the biggest beer gardens in Australia. Recently he established a small beer garden of 15 tables in the concrete courtyard… Read More ›
In London in 1750 the gin shop signs used to announce that you could get “drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence.” In Sydney in 1946, due to the tempo of drinking, you can get drunk on four pots,… Read More ›
By Malcolm Salmon MRS Gladys Ramsay retired on February 24 after 32 years behind the bar at the Great Britain Hotel at the waterfront end of Flinders Street, Melbourne. And a crowd of her wharfie regulars (above) turned up to… Read More ›
