TAKEN OVER YERONG CREEK HOTEL Mr and Mrs E. Lalor, with Miss Lalor, who have taken over the lease of the Yerong Creek Hotel. – The Border Morning Mail March 19 1943. Yerong Creek is a town in the Riverina area… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Road trip: The cocky and the drag queen
Two very different publicans By Mick Roberts © THEY say that Braidwood, on the NSW Southern Highlands is a diverse community, a place where the city meets the bush, where artists mingle with farmers, where mechanics and shearers share a… Read More ›
Sydney’s Bohemian pub: the Newcastle Hotel and the Molloys
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Molloy family once reigned over one of Sydney’s best-known bohemian hotels, the haunt of artists, actors, entertainers and journalists. The Newcastle Hotel traded on the south-west corner of George and Sussex Streets, Sydney, a short… Read More ›
Women celebrate Queen’s coronation
WOMEN CROWDED THE BAR— BUT JUST FOR A WEEK WOMEN drinkers crowded the bar of the King’s Head Hotel, on the corner of Park and Elizabeth Streets, Sydney in 1953 to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The coronation… Read More ›
Heat packs the bar of the Astra
As Sydney sweltered in a heat-wave in the summer of 1945, hotels were popular. This was the scene at 1pm on Saturday November 3 in the bar of the Astra Hotel, Bondi. The Sydney Sun reported the “average success of… Read More ›
Worst Sydney Beer Shortage on Record
THESE LUCKY FEW FOUND OASIS IN BEER DESERT THE beer shortage in Sydney yesterday was the most acute on record, the president of the United Licensed Victuallers’ Association (Mr. N. H. Connolly) said last, night. Mr Connolly said less than… Read More ›
Campsie Hotel, Campsie
THE BREAKING OF THE DROUGHT CAMPSIE is to have its only hotel, but many residents oppose the innovation. They allege that it will “bring undesirables to the district, and by the cause of disturbances. The history of Campsie for the… Read More ›
Sly grog was auctioned – or in some cases – donated to hospitals!
WHEN Sydney police raided sly-grog shops during the 1920s, the confiscated beer, wine and spirits were usually auctioned, attracting large crowds looking to grab a bargain. In October 1920, 4,000 bottles of beer were sold at an auction “for fairly… Read More ›
Wagga Wagga cocky wants a beer?
“Curley” Elphick, barman at a Wagga hotel, photographed recently with his pet cockatoo which drinks a middy of beer a day. – Avon Argus November 23 1950 Subscribe to the latest Time Gents’ stories OR CONTRIBUTE BY CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD… Read More ›
Murderer shot the wrong man outside Sydney’s Camelia Grove Hotel
AN ongoing feud between Cecil ‘Tibby’ Bell and the Thornton brothers came to a tragic end outside the public bar of the Camelia Grove Hotel in Sydney’s inner-south on a summer’s night in 1930. Born in 1910, Tibby Bell grew-up… Read More ›