The Town Hall Hotel, Newtown, 1960s. Photo: Australian National University, Noel Butlin Archives.
ROBBERY IN HOTEL
Secreting themselves in the boiler room of the Town Hall Hotel, King-street, Newtown, before closing time yesterday, thieves emerged from their hiding place after the last customer had gone, and stole 50 bottles of whisky, 175 packets of cigarettes and £6 in money.
– The Sydney Sun Wednesday 14 June 1939
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Categories: NSW hotels, Sydney hotels
My parents, Pam & Bob East, came from the Hotel Illawarra, Wollongong to the Town Hall Hotel in 1963 for just over three years. They cleaned it up from being a pretty rough pub. We lived on the 1st floor and had three only long-term tenants on the top floor. In 1967 they took on The Lakes Hotel at The Entrance.