ALMOST A RIOT. About 10 o’clock on Saturday night Constable McDaniel saw a woman ejected from a Goulburn-street hotel (Haymarket) by two barmaids. He arrested her, and, at first she was going easily enough, but a man called out to… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Commercial Hotel, Dorrigo
FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ? It’s the first time a Scotsman has been seen to leave a beer on the bar while he left the room, said an eye witness one day last week. We have it through ‘the grape vine’… Read More ›
Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in… Read More ›
Road Trip: Great Northern Hotel, Teralba
OF the five pubs we visited in the Lake Macquarie area of NSW over the Queens Birthday Long Weekend, the Great Northern at Teralba takes the crown as the most traditional working class watering hole. It’s a ripper. You… Read More ›
Road Trip: Minmi’s last pub
THE Minmi Hotel is the last ‘man standing’ in a coal mining settlement that once boasted a dozen places where the inhabitants could ‘wet their whistle’. By the late 1870s, the township had 500 men employed at the local colliery… Read More ›
Road Trip: Museum Hotel, West Wallsend
THE second stop on our visit to West Wallsend district’s watering holes this weekend was Lake Macquarie’s second oldest pub – The Museum Hotel. The West Wallsend pub – the last of the town’s pubs – opened in 1889, and… Read More ›
Road Trip: Holmesville Hotel, Holmesville
TO think that the Holmesville Hotel was almost lost as a house of hospitality! Time Gents visited the West Wallsend district in NSW over the weekend, dropping into a few of the historic pubs, on what was rainy, miserable Queens… Read More ›
Road Trip: The lost pubs of West Wallsend
FOR a little mining town that once had an unquenchable thirst, there’s little wonder six pubs traded at the same time early last century. Today, sadly just one pub remains in West Wallsend. That insatiable thirst seems to have been… Read More ›
Road Trip: Killingworth Hotel, Killingworth
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN a group of men went to the Killingworth Hotel, a few days before Christmas 1952, asking for bottles of beer, the bar had been closed for an hour and half. It was way past… Read More ›
Four in Hand Hotel, Paddington
BOUND BODY OF PENSIONER IN HOTEL SYDNEY, Monday – An 85 years old pensioner, Herbert Sidney Butler, was found dead today in his ransacked bed room in the Four-In-Hand Hotel, Paddington. He is believed to have, been attacked by burglars. He… Read More ›