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 ›
NSW hotels
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 ›
Wharfies at Sydney’s Harbour View Hotel insisted on fresh flowers in the bar every day
WHO would have thought? The wharfies who frequented the Harbour View Hotel in the shadow of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at Millers Point during the early 1950s insisted on having fresh flowers in the bar every day – and, as… Read More ›
Central West NSW Road Trip: The pubs of Canowindra
By MICK ROBERTS © WE ended our 2018 road trip to the former gold mining villages and towns of central west NSW by calling into historic Canowindra, located between Orange and Cowra. Where the town’s pubs trade is the curving main street, which… Read More ›
Road trip: A visit to central west NSW and the Cargo Inn
CONTINUING our road trip to the former gold mining towns of central west NSW, we left the Railway Hotel at Spring Hill for the charm of another single storey brick pub, the Cargo Inn. The drive from Spring Hill, via… Read More ›
Warwick Farm Hotel’s roustabout found dead on rail lines after £30,000 inheritance
By MICK ROBERTS © A drifter, William Price did most odd jobs around the pubs where he worked in return for boarding and lodgings. He tapped beer barrels, collected glasses, cleaned toilets, and emptied ashtrays. His job was often labelled as… Read More ›
Road Trip: Railway Hotel, Spring Hill
I RECKON it’s more than appropriate that a bloke who watched the first passenger train in NSW puff its way between Sydney and Granville in 1855 names his pub the Railway Hotel. Among the thousands of Sydneysiders who gathered to… Read More ›