THE Long Bar of the Australia Hotel, known all over the world, is having its character changed. Half its length has closed down and will be converted into a series of short island bars, with a cocktail bar at the… Read More ›
Month: August 2018
His first for the day: Commercial Hotel, Hebel
IN the early 1970s, writer, John Larkins and photographer, Bruce Howard went on a 40,000km pub crawl around Australia, telling their wives, “Don’t wait up!” With Larkins wonderful words, and Howards’ fabulous photos, they chronicled an amazing snap shot of… Read More ›
The Leap Hotel, Mandarana Mountain
IN the early 1970s, writer, John Larkins and photographer, Bruce Howard went on a 40,000km pub crawl around Australia, telling their wives, “Don’t wait up!” With Larkins wonderful words, and Howards’ fabulous photos, they chronicled an amazing snap shot of… Read More ›
Appin Hotel was established on the busy main road between Sydney and Illawarra in the 1840s
AN entertaining story was published in the newspaper, the Sydney Mail, on April 30 1930 to mark the demolition of Appin’s historic Royal Hotel. A Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Frank Walker penned the story, which revealed how… Read More ›
Wharfies at Sydney’s Harbour View Hotel insisted on fresh flowers in the bar every day
WHO would have thought? The wharfies who frequented the Harbour View Hotel in the shadow of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at Millers Point during the early 1950s insisted on having fresh flowers in the bar every day – and, as… Read More ›
Melbourne inns that have gone
A FASCINATING story, published in the Melbourne Argus on August 25, 1945, revealed a glimpse into some of Melbourne’s early inns and hotels. Ernest McCaughan writes in his story that to anyone acquainted with Melbourne in the last century nothing… Read More ›
Walter sat at the same table in Adelaide’s Exchange Hotel for 42 years
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN the Exchange Hotel was demolished in February 1960, it ended more than 120 years of Adelaide’s history. In fact, it destroyed the city’s oldest pub. There had been a hotel on the north-east corner of… Read More ›
Sydney’s ‘oldest wharfie’ worked the docks at Millers Point at the age of 91
SYDNEY’S oldest wharf laborer, who works at 91, attributes his long life and good health to “plenty work and plenty beer.” He is John ‘Scotty’ Steele, Dargnan-street, Glebe, who was born nine miles from Glasgow in 1855. He presents himself… Read More ›
Central West NSW Road Trip: The pubs of Canowindra
By MICK ROBERTS © WE ended our 2018 road trip to the former gold mining villages and towns of central west NSW by calling into historic Canowindra, located between Orange and Cowra. Where the town’s pubs trade is the curving main street, which… Read More ›
Women have their say on later pub closing: Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills
THE Daily Telegraph visited a number of Sydney pubs, including Surry Hills’ iconic Hollywood Hotel, in 1954, reporting on how women were finally infiltrating the harbour city’s bars. Besides the Hollywood, the newspaper called into the Newcastle Hotel in George… Read More ›