BEER PRICE COULD RISE FURTHER Beer price rises which operate today cover only increased excise. If an application by the breweries for a price increase (now before the Prices Commissioner) is approved, beer prices will rise still further. New prices in force today include :-… Read More ›
FORTY years ago this week, Adelaide stopped registering barmaids. Only one is still on the job in the city – Miss Lily Dear, of the Orient Hotel, Rundle Street. No barmaids were registered after March 31, 1909. A licensee’s wife… Read More ›
THE Windsor Castle Hotel was established by Thomas Chalk Snr on land he secured at the corner of Franklin Street and Victoria square, Adelaide in 1850. Chalk named his pub the Windsor Castle Hotel, for which he obtained a licence… Read More ›
PORT Adelaide pubs reflect South Australia’s maritime history in catering to the sailors of trading ships. The earliest recorded was the Port Hotel, which opened in 1838 – two years before the port was officially declared. The first hotel at the… Read More ›