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 ›
LIKE OLD TIMES.-At about midday on Thursday, a young man drove up to the front of the Royal Hotel, in Molesworth-street, Lismore, got out of the sulky, took the horse out and tied him up to the post, and politely left them… Read More ›
INNER west Sydney’s diminishing art-deco architecture was the focus of our road trip when Time Gents visited four pubs in and around Marrickville late last month. A relatively short drive from our inner-city base, is the destination we like to… Read More ›
With temperatures rising to 90 degrees [32.2 celsius] in Newcastle yesterday, 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. – Newcastle… Read More ›
Sydney bar travels 250 kilometres west to Orange By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S a pub in the central west tablelands of NSW that has links to one of Sydney’s most famous early colonial hotels. After its closure in 1950, the… Read More ›
Parramatta Road’s Oldest Pubs A SUNDAY drive along Parramatta Road took us to rediscover some of Sydney’s oldest pubs. The plan was to visit seven pubs between Sydney and Parramatta, with lunch at the Rose and Crown. Come with Time… Read More ›