Mr Kevin Vitnell, of Wallsend, lowers a 10-gallon stainless steel keg into the cellar of a city hotel yesterday. Stainless steel kegs are gradually replacing the traditional wooden keg in Newcastle. Brewers report that the timber for the wooden kegs… Read More ›
WITH temperatures rising to 90 degrees in Newcastle yesterday, the hotels were thronged with thirsty customers – so thirsty that the beer supplies failed in some cases. This group made a typical scene during the afternoon. – Newcastle Morning Herald Thursday… Read More ›
The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel at the Junction, Newcastle, which was licensed on December 13, 1869, and has been in the possession of the McAnliffe family for about 50 years, has closed its doors. It was the oldest hotel building… Read More ›
THE Bank Hotel formerly stood in Hunter street, Newcastle, on the site now occupied by the Oxford Hotel, the sale of which was an announced this week. The block of land at the corner of Hunter, Brown and Crown Streets… Read More ›
Lu-lu, circus chimpanzee visiting Newcastle, has a friendly drop of beer with Mr. Tom Elliott in a hotel yesterday. Lu-lu is a polite animal. She shakes hands with men, and for women she bows gallantly and kisses their bands. Aged three, she does an acrobatic… Read More ›
A group of slightly drunk looking men, three sitting on Tooth & Co., beer barrels at Morpeth (near Newcastle). Photo: University of Newcastle collection. “The police report for 1903 shows there was an increase of 800 in the number of… Read More ›
Two-up was played extensively by Australian soldiers during World War I. The exact origins of ‘two-up’ are obscure, but it seems to have evolved from pitch and toss, a gambling game involving tossing a single coin into the air and… Read More ›
Won’t Have Pints. First customer to drink from one of the new 20 oz. pints at the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, yesterday was Mr. Bob Hall, 87, who has been drinking at that hotel for 62 years. “That is the… Read More ›
Nurses from hospitals were in the City yesterday for the Wattle Day collection. Nurse M. Graham, of Watt-street Mental Hospital, was a successful saleswoman after she had ventured into a hotel during the 4 to 6pm rush. – Newcastle Morning… Read More ›
