A BULLI SENSATION BULLI. Tuesday – A man named John Reynolds, who was discharged last week from the lunatic asylum, became dangerously mad this morning. Reynolds, with his brother, was sent several months ago to the asylum, suffering from religious… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE life of one of Sydney’s most successful publicans, a man who hosted some of the harbour city’s grandest tourist hotels, ended tragically in 1935 after he murdered his wife while she slept, and he then… Read More ›
ESTABLISHED in 1880, the Albion Park Hotel, located in the Illawarra region of NSW, was originally built by English pioneer, Gabriel Timbs. Timbs was a native of Berkshire, England. He was born in 1824, and came to the colony of… Read More ›
A MAN was struck by a runaway semi-trailer lorry on Friday and knocked through the doorway into the public bar of the Wollongong Hotel. The man, George Scott, 58, of 91 Corrimal street, Wollongong, had just had a drink in the bar and walked out… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © SAID to be a modest man, publican James Alexander Martin managed to keep from an official government inquest how he saved the life of a drowning man when he gave evidence in 1914. Jim Martin was… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS & MICHELLE HOCTOR © KIAMA Inn is the oldest business in Kiama Municipality having operated from the same site – on the south-east corner of Terralong and Shoalhaven Streets – continuously since 1853. After Wollongong’s Harp Hotel,… Read More ›
Yes… There’s another Bulli, besides in the Illawarra, NSW. Bulli Creek is located south west of Toowoomba in Queensland on the Darling Downs. And yes, there is also another Bulli pub, besides the Illawarra’s Heritage Hotel… Well, kind-of… Bulli Creek… Read More ›
DURING the 1940s, publicans were experiencing unprecedented theft of beer glasses from their pubs. One newspaper reported more than 700,000 glasses had disappeared from Sydney’s 600 metropolitan hotels in 1944, “In an amazing wave of petty thieving”. Hotels lost an average of 60 glasses… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © A FORMER police officer, and one time host of the Cabbage Tree Hotel at Fairy Meadow, Mick Hanley was quite surprised, while going about his business as a licensing cop in 1990, to find his family name… Read More ›
MICK ROBERTS © WELL over six feet tall and solidly built, Andrew Lysaght was an imposing and colourful Illawarra pioneer. A magistrate, who resigned after a parliamentary inquiry found he called the Wollongong Police Sergeant an “old woman”, he wasn’t afraid… Read More ›