FOR a little mining town that once had an unquenchable thirst, there’s little wonder six pubs traded at the same time early last century. Today, sadly just one pub remains in West Wallsend. That insatiable thirst seems to have been… Read More ›
Newcastle hotels
Road Trip: Killingworth Hotel, Killingworth
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN a group of men went to the Killingworth Hotel, a few days before Christmas 1952, asking for bottles of beer, the bar had been closed for an hour and half. It was way past… Read More ›
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Bottles by the thousands
Christmas cheer – Bottles everywhere but not a drop to drink! People who spent days asking in different hotels for bottle beer in vain will not get much satisfaction from this collection of ’empties’ in a corner of a Newcastle… Read More ›
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Rolling out the (new style) barrel
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 ›
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Thirsty New Year’s Eve
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 ›
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Newcastle’s oldest hotel closes
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 ›
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An early Newcastle hotel
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 ›
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Lu-lu Has A Friendly Beer
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 ›
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Increase in drunkeness
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 ›
