AB Hotel, Glebe. Mick Roberts Collection 
Bar, AB Hotel, Glebe. Picture: Mick Roberts Collection 
AB Hotel, Glebe. Picture: Mick Roberts Collection 
Ancient Briton Hotel, Glebe, 1930. Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University. 
Ancient Briton Hotel, Glebe, 1939. Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University.
Originally named the Ancient Briton, this Sydney hotel has served the local community since the 1860s. It remains trading at 225 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe.
“From 1898 Tooths began its move to control the drink trade in Glebe and by 1939 it had acquired the freehold of eight pubs – Lilliebridge (1898), Ancient Briton (1901), Forest Lodge (1905), Excelsior (1907), Australian Youth (1936), British Lion (1936), Friend in Hand (1936) and Kauri (1939), and it acquired the head lease of the University Hotel in 1926… A beery aura always hung round the Ancient Briton which sold more beer than any other Glebe pub. Its licensee from 1903, Michael Furlong, would not tolerate any drunkenness or bad language in his pub.”
– Dictionary of Sydney – Glebe Pubs
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