By MICK ROBERTS © A RESOURCEFUL woman, who outlived two publican husbands, Margaret Leahy made a few ‘firsts’ during her life as a South Australian hotelier. At the helm of one of the state’s oldest trading pubs, she was one of… Read More ›
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Adelaide’s last barmaid: When women were barred from behind the bar
UNLIKE NSW, where barmaids were more plentiful than barmen in hotel public bars, women were as scarce as hens’ teeth in the pubs of South Australia and Victoria for many decades during last century. From 1908 until 1967 no woman… Read More ›
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Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide
Hotel collects for Largs Bay Orphanage SMALL CHANGE thrown into two artillery shells on a cupboard behind the bar at Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide, was counted yesterday by Mr. Ron Threadgold and Mrs. J. Cann, the licensee’s wife. It came… Read More ›
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Rebel Irish flag at Adelaide hotel
A genuine Sinn Fein (Irish rebel) flag, over 50 years old, flew outside the Southern Cross Hotel in King William street yesterday in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. The manager of the Southern Cross (Mr. M. C. Flannagan) said the… Read More ›
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Strategic beer break
The annual AIF tourney was played at Kooyonga Golf Club, in Adelaide’s west during the 1950s. Players set out fortified by a rum and milk and during the round refreshed themselves from a keg of beer set up in a… Read More ›
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Exchange Hotel, Adelaide
The Exchange hotel, Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia when Charles Arthur Goldfinch was licensee on June 27 1930. It was a two storey building with a wide verandah upstairs and a balcony decorated with iron lace. There was a hotel… Read More ›
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Car runs into the bar of Adelaide’s Selborne Hotel
A MISBEHAVED MOTOR RUNS INTO HOTEL BAR. ADELAIDE. Tuesday. The unexplained vagaries of a motor car caused some excitement in Pirie-street today. After capsizing a buggy, it swung across the road, knocked down a cyclist, missed a row of verandah posts by fractions of… Read More ›
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Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide
By MICK ROBERTS © THE bloodied body of 29-year-old George Norton, found at the rear steps of the Southern Cross Hotel in Adelaide one Summer night in 1954 immediately sparked the suspicion of authorities. Police at first suspected foul play, but… Read More ›
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St Leonards Inn: A South Australian pub hosted by one family for almost a century
HOTEL WITH A RECORD One Line of Publicans Historic St. Leonards Inn To be owned and conducted by one family for nearly 79 years is the record of St Leonards Inn, St Leonards (Glenelg SA). John McDonald, a pioneer who… Read More ›
