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 ›
NSW hotels
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 ›
Mysterious death at Temora’s Federal Hotel
Mysterious death at the Federal A POST mortem failed to reveal the cause of death of 48-year-old Henry Murphy, who was found dead in a bedroom at the Federal Hotel, Temora in September 1948. A broken drinking glass and a wrapper of… Read More ›
Explosion kills boarder at Nowra’s Empire Hotel
A TERRIFIC explosion shook Nowra’s Empire Hotel in the early hours of a spring morning in 1930 killing an occupant in one of its upstair’s bedrooms. Now trading as the Australian Hotel, at the corner of Kinghorne and North Streets,… Read More ›
Established in 1885, the Royal Hotel at Guyra settles into its third home
Located midway between Armidale and Glen Innes, in the New England region of NSW, trades the Royal Hotel at Guyra. The Royal had a bit of a bumpy start to its 130 year history, with the license transferred from two… Read More ›
Blue’s Point Hotel has undergone many changes since its establishment in 1864
THE Blues Point Hotel, at McMahon Point, North Sydney, has undergone a few transformations since it was established in 1864. The current pub was built in 1938, however the site at the southern corner of Blues Point Road and French… Read More ›
Appin Hotel was established on the busy main road between Sydney and Illawarra in the 1840s
AN entertaining story was published in the newspaper, the Sydney Mail, on April 30 1930 to mark the demolition of Appin’s historic Royal Hotel. A Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Frank Walker penned the story, which revealed how… Read More ›