THEY LOOK EXTRA GOOD These pots have an extra good look about them, but don’t be hopeful. Picture shows a new beer servicing device known as “Pluto” in use in a Melbourne hotel. It consists of six feet of transparent… Read More ›
Melbourne Hotels
The Pub Counter Lunch
REVIVAL OF AN OLD CUSTOM
Down she comes: The Apollo Inn, Melbourne
Wreckers demolishing the Apollo Inn, at the corner of Russell street and Flinders lane — Melbourne’s most ancient hostelry. It was here that [John] Batman, the founder of Melbourne, used to take his glass. – Melbourne Weekly Times, January 29,… Read More ›
The 1952 Victorian Beer Strike: This barrel broke the drought
TO the relief of publicans and drinkers a 34-day-beer strike by workers at the Carlton and United Brewery ended at 3pm on December 2 1952 – just in time for Christmas. ‘Hotels all over Melbourne were ready for the brewery… Read More ›
In praise of the Australian pub
The following story by Ken Schapel is one of the most eloquent and apt descriptions I have read of the Australian pub. During my many years’ research as a social historian I have cast my eyes over countless attempts at… Read More ›
Sydney’s Sussex Hotel and the failed attempt to dethrone Melbourne’s original ‘Chloe’
By MICK ROBERTS © THE rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney is legendary – a competitiveness between Australia’s two largest cities that can be found from the sporting fields to the bar rooms of pubs. During the 1950s Melbourne’s Young and Jackson… Read More ›
Melbourne inns that have gone
A FASCINATING story, published in the Melbourne Argus on August 25, 1945, revealed a glimpse into some of Melbourne’s early inns and hotels. Ernest McCaughan writes in his story that to anyone acquainted with Melbourne in the last century nothing… Read More ›
Gruesome, grim coincidence: Dredged from the Yarra after visiting ‘a number’ of pubs
WILLIAM Morrow was employed by the Melbourne Harbour Trust as caretaker of the Dredge Latrobe. The 56-year-old single man lived on board the dredge. One evening in June 1910 he went up into Yarraville to buy some groceries, bought them,… Read More ›
Pub crawl with a twist
RETURNED soldier Jim Moody, of East St. Kilda, Melbourne, crawled one mile, from Spring-st to Spencer-st, Melbourne, carrying a glass of beer to win a £5 bet that Middle East men were “tougher” than New Guinea veterans. – Toodyay Herald… Read More ›