Moya made history in 1946 as NSW’s first ‘unmarried’ female publican since 1882 By MICK ROBERTS © BORN into a family of devout Irish Catholics, Dorothy Moya Hartigan could have easily spent her life in a convent, instead of a… Read More ›
NSW hotels
New Year’s Beers 1947 Style
WITH temperatures rising to 32 degrees in Newcastle on New Year’s Eve 1947, the hotels were thronged with thirsty customers – so thirsty that the beer supplies failed in some cases. This group made a typical scene during the afternoon –… Read More ›
Road Trip: Central West NSW
By MICK ROBERTS © ON Time Gents’ road trips, we sometimes stumble upon pubs that can only be described as pure treasures. On a Sunday drive in 2017 we visited a number of small villages and towns in the central… Read More ›
The pub that never opened: The Athletic Club Hotel, Surry Hills
By MICK ROBERTS © A STONE’S throw down the hill, in the narrow laneways off the thriving entertainment strip of Crown Street, where weekend crowds pack Surry Hills’ venues like ‘The Clock’, and ‘White Horse’, can be found the “pub… Read More ›
Australian Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney
THE original Australian Hotel, leased to John Murray, sat at 116 Cumberland Street on land within the Observatory Hill precinct. However, the history of the hotel’s license can be traced back to 1824, when a pub traded on George Street,… Read More ›
Australian Hotel, Woolloomooloo
THE Australian Inn Hotel at Woolloomooloo traded for just over 100 years before it was forced to shut after the license was transferred to Yagoona, in Sydney’s west. John J. Earl licensed the Australian Inn on the corner of Woolloomooloo… Read More ›
The Australia Hotel, aka The Abercrombie, Broadway, Sydney
A PUB has traded at the corner of Broadway and Abercrombie Street, in Sydney’s Chippendale, since 1843. The current art deco pub opened in 1938 to replace a previous structure, built in 1911. The Australian Hotel was one of four… Read More ›
Hotel Astra, Bondi Beach
For more than a hundred years a hotel stood on the site of what is today the Astra Retirement Village at Bondi Beach. The original building was named the Cliff House Hotel and was built around 1880. The Cliff House… Read More ›
Warraweena Hotel destroyed by fire twice
The Warraweena Hotel was located at Dry Lake, about 35km north of Bourke, on the road to the Queensland border town of Barringun. The pub was a stop-over for the mail coach, and popular with drovers, boundary riders and other… Read More ›
The pub piano
THERE was nothing unusual to hear the boisterous voices of men bellowing from the bars of Australian pubs during the war years and beyond. Pubs were the principle venues of entertainment for men during the war years, which continued in… Read More ›