YOU know that glare? That glare you get from patrons when you walk into an unfamiliar pub? Is there a more uncomfortable feeling? Yes, there is a more uneasy feeling; that feeling when you walk into an almost empty bar,… Read More ›
NSW hotels
The demise of Sydney’s inner-city hotels, and the rise of the 1950s suburban ‘Super Pubs’
IN an effort to spread evenly the number of pubs around a rapidly expanding Sydney in the late 1940s, the NSW Government began encouraging the removal of inner-city pub licenses out into the suburbs. One of the first so called… Read More ›
More than ‘just another beer house’, Parramatta’s Lennox Hotel was a ‘social centre’
THE Lennox Hotel at Parramatta opened for business as a Toohey’s tied house in Sydney’s west on Friday, October 10, 1958, after its license was transferred from the nearby Tattersall’s Hotel at the corner of Smith and George Streets. Read… Read More ›
Parramatta’s Tattersalls Hotel and the Creasey family
By MICK ROBERTS © MARGARET Creasey must have been wary of banks. Twice, banks purchased her pubs at Parramatta, and moved her from successful operating businesses over her 26 year career as a hotelier. Margaret, along with her husband John, established… Read More ›
How karma played a role in the history of the Kogarah Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Asian belief of Karma – a spiritual notion where intent and actions influence the future – played an interesting role in the story of a pub in Sydney’s south. The Kogarah Hotel, at the southern corner… Read More ›
Darlington’s Golden Grove Hotel was swallowed-up by an expanding Sydney University
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 ›
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 ›