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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
TWO barmaids who once pulled beers from the same two pubs in the mid 1890s, tragically took their own lives – two years apart – over broken relationships. Nellie Willis shot her estranged fiancé, Ernest McFadden in the throat at Auburn, in… Read More ›
As Sydney sweltered in yesterday’s heat-wave hotels were popular. This was the scene at 1 pm in the Astra Hotel, Bondi. Average success of thirsty drinkers in the crowded bar was two drinks per hour. – The Sydney Sun Sunday 4 November 1945…. Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © AUSTRALIAN sportsmen have a long tradition of donning the publican apron. In fact, history is littered with famous sporting publicans, who have taken advantage of their athletic fame to earn them a living behind the bar…. Read More ›
The Hotel Cuicairn : Fine Example of a Country Hotel. Fourteen years ago Mr. F. W. Seholz took over the old hotel — a small, one-storeyed building on the present site — on a five years’ lease, and then bought… Read More ›
The tragic tale of the murder of a publican’s wife By MICK ROBERTS © TWO years after the Royal Hotel in Sydney’s George Street closed for business in 1914, a young man who had committed a horrific murder from within… Read More ›