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 ›
“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 ›
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 ›
By Henry McCarthy THE licensee of the Amos Hotel in Newcastle employed his sister as a barmaid and, because he believed that blood was thicker than beer, refused to put her in the union. He told the other barmaids who… Read More ›
By a Staff Reporter YESTERDAY I spied on the man who spied on us. He is William Winter, one of America‘s best-known news commentators. Mr Winter is recording general aspects of Australian life and air-mailing the records to… Read More ›
The Swan Brewery is unquestionably one of the finest of its kind in Australia. Its large premises, extending with yards and stables over 54 acres of land, are situate on one of the loveliest spots on the banks of the… Read More ›
Bowen River Hotel, Bowen Queensland 1951. The Bowen River Hotel was established in 1873 and was once the change post for the mails from Bowen Downs, Aramac, and Bowes. When this photo was taken in 1951 it was located in… Read More ›
