By Mick Roberts © ALTHOUGH Melbourne’s Apollo Inn clearly displayed 1844 on its parapet, there seems to be a discrepancy in the pub’s establishment year. The Apollo Inn was rebuilt from a single-storey structure, containing four bedrooms and four sitting… Read More ›
THE year before Olive Kathleen Cummins married she became the licensee of South Melbourne’s Caledonian Hotel at the age of 25. Olive was granted the license of her first pub, the Caledonian in 1919, and had a short stay after… Read More ›
LEGEND has it that Melbourne’s historic Mitre Tavern spawned the name of a well-known Australian hardware store. The story goes – well, according to the pub’s folklore – that two of the founding members of the hardware store, Mitre 10… Read More ›
THE publican of Carlton’s United States Hotel had endured four raids by thieves within nine months before shooting dead an intruder in May 1925. Publican John Maxwell O’Shea shot Henry ‘Pony’ Dodds while he was attempting to climb over the… Read More ›
The Royal Mail, Bourke and Swanston Streets, Melbourne CHARLES LEECH, Proprietor. THIS famous hotel is a notable landmark of Melbourne, and is one of the most popular houses of call in the city. Under the energetic guidance of the present… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © A CANNY Scotsman with a reputation for being careful with his money, Jimmy Richardson, was one of Australia’s most successful hoteliers. Jimmy built an empire of Melbourne hotels, before selling them all – with the exception… Read More ›
A WOMAN turned a few heads within the bar of the Richmond Club Hotel in Richmond, Victoria in 1891 when she plunged completely naked into the outside water trough. Today the horse drinking trough outside the Swan Street pub has… Read More ›
ACTU president Albert Monk joins the Soviet and Chinese delegates in a good old Australian custom — breasting the bar to enjoy a few middies of Melbourne’s famous beer. – Sydney Tribune July 11 1956
By Malcolm Salmon MRS Gladys Ramsay retired on February 24 after 32 years behind the bar at the Great Britain Hotel at the waterfront end of Flinders Street, Melbourne. And a crowd of her wharfie regulars (above) turned up to… Read More ›