By Henry McCarthy THE licensee of the Amos Hotel in Newcastle employed his sister as a barmaid and, because he believed that blood was thicker than beer, refused to put her in the union. He told the other barmaids who… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Bondi pub drinkers rally for war bonds
The sale of war bonds was a significant aspect of the Australian home front during the Second World War. Administered by the Commonwealth War Loan Office, the war loans scheme encouraged Australians to buy war bonds which would mature… Read More ›
Newcastle’s three ‘Great Northerns’
The current Great Northern Hotel at Newcastle opened in 1938. It’s the third hotel of the same name to occupy the site, its predecessors having been in operation since 1864. The hotel was designed by Sydney architects Rudder and Grout and built… Read More ›
War time beer shortages
Thousands rush beer at suburban hotel Four thousand people gathered yesterday afternoon at the Imperial Hotel, Milson’s Point – one of the few hotels open in Sydney. The hotel served English beer at a shilling and six pence a pint…. Read More ›
Door of Lidcombe’s Royal Oak Hotel, marked with horse racing bets, removed for evidence by police
POLICE TAKE HOTEL DOOR IT was a little draughty in the bar of the Royal Oak Hotel one Saturday afternoon last century after a police raid. Quite a stir was caused when police arrived with a tool kit at the… Read More ›
Road Trip: The pubs of Balmain and Rozelle
By MICK ROBERTS © THE pubs we visited on our road trip to Sydney’s inner-west in 2019 started their trading life as working class, blue collar establishments. The four pubs all opened over a century ago, frequented by wharfies, factory… Read More ›
The story of two pubs with the sign, Marrickville Hotel
Marrickville had the longest bar in NSW…. The Hotel Marrickville in Sydney’s inner-west reportedly had the longest public bar in NSW during the 1940s. This long-gone pub is not to be confused with the current Marrickville Hotel located at 244 Marrickville Road, which… Read More ›
The beer bowser at the Royal Surrey Hotel, Bondi Junction
BEER bowsers first made an appearance in the late 1940s and early 1950s when they became popular in another new innovation sweeping across pubs in Australia – beer gardens. A beer bowser made an appearance in the beer garden of… Read More ›
Travelling salesman narrowly escaped injury when buggy crashed into a Bathurst pub’s backyard dunny
DISTURBED ON THE DUNNY A TRAVELLING salesman got a shock of his life while paying a visit to the backyard dunny of a pub in central west NSW early last century. A couple of horses belonging to stableman, Bert Elliott… Read More ›
Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
TICKLED THE PUB PETER* ARCHIE MILTON CRANNERY tried to big-note himself at the Friend-in-Hand alehouse, Glebe, on January 6, when he grabbed the ten shilling currency in the till with one hand, and clamped on the singles and fivers with… Read More ›