THE Golden Grove Hotel sat on the corner of Alma and Raglan Streets at Darlington, Sydney. The pub was established in 1880 and traded for 74 years before its license was transfered to Maroubra on October 22 1954 to make… Read More ›
NSW hotels
The many faces of the Glasgow Arms, Carrington
SADLY the beer no longer flows at the Glasgow Arms, at the corner of Young and Cowper Streets, in the Newcastle suburb of Carrington. The Glasgow Arms was built in 1939, replacing an older pub on the opposite corner that… Read More ›
Paddington pub punching above its weight
By MICK ROBERTS © LIKE footballers, it seemed it was once a right of passage for boxers to turn their hand to a pub career after retiring from their sport. One pugilist who swapped his gloves for a publican apron was… Read More ›
Hundreds of beer glasses stolen in one day at the Dee Why Hotel on Sydney’s northern beaches
Last Boxing Day was not a happy one for mine host, Nev Tipping, of the Dee Why Hotel, Sydney. And yet it should have been. He had plenty of beer, a great number of customers, excellent drinking weather, and 2,000… Read More ›
Wagga Wagga pub cocky sinks a middy a day
Curley Elphick, barman at a Wagga Wagga hotel (NSW), photographed with his pet cockatoo, which drinks a middy of beer a day. Picture: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) Friday 20 October 1950. Subscribe to the latest Time Gents’ stories OR TIP… Read More ›
Britons beer at Woolloomooloo’s Merryfield Hotel
THE MERRYFIELD HOTEL, East Sydney, is one of the few hotels in Sydney serving beer. The hotel serves Briton’s beer, supply of which has not been affected by the present strike. Picture was taken at 10.30am yesterday. – The Daily… Read More ›
Malay barman, Tan’s special cocktails made drinkers ‘blink and ask for more’
CHINESE barman K. W. Tan (right), who used to shake cocktails on Burns, Philp steamers, now pulls beers at the Prince of Wales Hotel, George Street; City [Sydney]. Tan, a refugee from Malaya, was placed at the hotel to release… Read More ›
The pub that Edmund Resch built: Imperial Hotel, Paddington
The landmark Sydney pub, the Imperial, at the corner of Oxford and Underwood Streets, Paddington was established by Henry Challener in 1874. Originally known as the Cross Guns Hotel, the name was changed to the Imperial in 1891. Edmund Resch,… Read More ›
Murder outside Paddington pub: Smoking gun placed on the bar of Rose & Crown Hotel
THE son of Paddington publican, Joe Ryan was preparing the Rose and Crown Hotel for another day’s trading in the Spring of 1952 when one of his regular customers calmly walked into the bar, and placed a smoking gun on… Read More ›
Randwick’s Royal Hotel and its association with the sport of kings
MENTION Randwick, and horse racing immediately springs to mind. Besides the historic horse racing track known as Royal Randwick, there’s another landmark in Sydney’s east that holds the same regal title, and has held an association with nobility for more… Read More ›