THE Waterworks Hotel at Botany will reach a significant milestone next year when it marks its 150 year anniversay. Named after the nearby Sydney Waterworks, which was established in 1858, the little pub at the corner of Bay Street and… Read More ›
LIKE OLD TIMES – At about midday on Thursday, a young man drove up to the front of the Royal Hotel, in Molesworth Street, Lismore, got out of the sulky, took the horse out and tied him up to the… Read More ›
DURING the 1940s, Sydney’s pubs experienced a huge problem with customers stealing beer glasses. In Sydney’s 600 hotels during 1944, the weekly loss of beer glasses by theft and breakages was estimated by the United Victuallers Association, the forerunner of… Read More ›
IN SHADOW OF PYLON AVOIDS AXE Standing in the shadow of the northern pylon of the Bridge is an old building, now known as the Imperial Hotel, which has a romantic as well as an historic connection with the great… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © CONTINUING our road trip to the Upper Hunter, our next port of call was the Commercial Hotel at Morpeth. There seems to have been two Commercial Hotels in Morpeth, the first licensed by Moses Murphy in April… Read More ›
THERE’S a pub at Casino, in the Northern Rivers of NSW, about 30kms from Lismore that has an intriguing sign. The Charcoal Inn looks like a fairly new type of pub, and you would be right in saying so. Like… Read More ›
A BURIED FENCE. The old Covent Gardens Hotel, at the corner of Dixon and Hay-streets, Sydney, is being rebuilt. Yesterday the workmen engaged in digging the foundations came across an old three-railed open fence, at a distance of nine feet… Read More ›
JIM Jordan was known as “The Prince of Hotelkeepers”. He had the Tabulam Hotel, in the far north-east of NSW, between Tenterfield and Casino, on the Clarence River from 1909 until his death in 1925. Jim’s reputation for giving free accommodation… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Victoria Inn, sometimes known as the Queen Victoria, traded as a pub for just over 25 years at East Maitland, before its taps ran dry in 1863. Although the historic pub reopened as the Old… Read More ›
IN a confusing administrative error, two pubs in the fledging colliery town of Kurri Kurri NSW officially were known by the same name for a short time in 1904. Robert Robertson, an experience hotelier, was 53 when he applied for… Read More ›