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 Advertisements
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Breweries
The 1948 Beer Drought
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 ›
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The Newnham Brothers: Brewers
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 ›
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Clifton’s lost pub – The Imperial
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 ›
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Heathorne, the Jamberoo brewer
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 ›
