PART of Tasmania’s contribution to a Merry Christmas for NSW consists of well over a quarter of a million bottles of ale, some of which are shown being prepared for shipment at a Launceston brewery. Finding it thirsty work are (from left… Read More ›
The Sail and Anchor Hotel is located on the corner of South Terrace and Henserson Street in Fremantle, Western Australia, opposite the Fremantle Markets. The Freemasons’ Hotel, was constructed in 1901–1903. It replaced the hotel that was originally constructed on the… Read More ›
THESE beer barrels, which were being returned to the Sydney breweries, formed a section of the cargo stacked on King’s Wharf [Sydney Harbour] yesterday after wharf labourers, engaged in loading the Mulubinba, were withdrawn by their union. The development followed the union’s decision to stop handling all general cargo… Read More ›
This magnificent eucalypt in the Mount Barker District is doomed to destruction, the tree having been sold to be cut up into staves for beer barrels. –Observer (Adelaide) Saturday 11 January 1919
By Mick Roberts © A STRIKE of brewery maintenance workers in 1948, just as Sydney was showing some signs of recovery from beer shortages and rationings during and after World War II, had a profound impact on the working class who… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Newnhams were linked to arguably Australia’s most famous brewery, so a drunken church warden making a scene at one of the three brewers’ funeral in 1862, was a likely epitaph to their largely untold… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © Time Gents was invited to a ‘meet and greet’ at Clifton’s former Imperial Hotel on the NSW South Coast back in 2015 to hear about plans for its restoration and transformation into an eatery and function… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN 52-year-old Henry Heathorne arrived alone in Sydney from Portsmouth on the ship Candahar in the winter of 1842, he had a tough job ahead of him. A Kent brewer, Heathorne had been called upon by… Read More ›
