The corner of Elizabeth and George Streets is home to one of Brisbane’s oldest hospitality sites. Now home to Irish Murphy’s, the site has hosted a pub since 1865. Originally known as the Dunmore Arms, the building was re-designed in… Read More ›
Brisbane hotels
Telling the ‘Yanks’ about us
By a Staff Reporter YESTERDAY I spied on the man who spied on us. He is William Winter, one of America‘s best-known news commentators. Mr Winter is recording general aspects of Australian life and air-mailing the records to… Read More ›
Free beer marked the opening of Brisbane’s Crown Hotel in 1854
A PUB had sat at the corner of Turbot and George Streets (No. 382) in Brisbane’s CBD for over 140 years when ‘progress’ finally caught-up with what had become known as the Majestic Hotel. The Crown Hotel was first licensed… Read More ›
Queensland 1912 hotel advertisements
WAY before the online services of Trivago and Wotif, there were other means to search for tourist hotels to holiday. Most Australian states had a “hotel and boarding house directory”, a small booklet listing the hotels, their features and prices…. Read More ›
Queensland police had an ‘official beer taster’ who was paid to ‘get drunk’ once a week
Drunk again, eh sarge? Ex-Police Sergeant Alfred Bee, of St. John’s Home, Toowong, used to be paid to get drunk one day a week. Each Sunday, he used to stagger from one Brisbane hotel to another until he had to… Read More ›
Brisbane brewery strike: Northerners forced to drink Resch’s and Richmond beer!
QUEENSLANDERS are a loyal lot when it comes to their local beers. They love their XXXX, and it took a lot for the northerners to be tempted to tipple southern brews. But desperate times, call for desperate measures. A strike… Read More ›
Waterloo Hotel, Fortitude Valley
MET ITS WATERLOO After yesterday’s heavy rain this taxi-cab skidded on the wet bitumen, got out of control, and crashed into an awning post of tho Waterloo Hotel, Valley, where another cab earlier in the day had been involved in a similar accident…. Read More ›
Royal George, Fortitude Valley
HISTORIC ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL IN THE VALLEY SOLD AT A RECORD PRICE The Royal George Hotel, which stands at the busy intersection of Ann and Brunswick Streets, Valley, has been sold for what is described by its former owner, Mr…. Read More ›
Evolution of a Brisbane pub: The Shamrock Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Netherworld in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley was formerly the Shamrock Hotel and later the Step Inn, having undergone several name changes before becoming the arcade, bar, and diner venue that opened in its current form in January 2017. The quirky venue has… Read More ›
Man falls from bedroom window of Brisbane’s Story Bridge Hotel
“Accidentally falling 30 feet from his bedroom at the Story Bridge Hotel, Kangaroo Point [Brisbane], about 11 o’clock last night, David McCandlish, 32, a rivetter, was seriously injured. Three years ago a man fell from the same room on the… Read More ›