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 ›
NSW hotels
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 ›
Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
LIKE GOOD WINE. THE GLAD HAND. Messrs, A. G. Papworth and T. Lockett extend mutual congratulations on the landing of a double at Menangle last week. —The Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) Thursday 28 March 1929 WOOLPACK’S NEW VENTURE The new… Read More ›
Emu Hotel, Parramatta
WITH HIS THROAT CUT. Sydney, Tuesday. An old age pensioner named James Lawson was found today in a stable at the Emu Hotel, Parramatta, with his throat cut. He had been seeking admission to the asylum. He is in a critical… Read More ›
Man falls 18 metres to his death at Sydney’s Durban Club Hotel
Tragedy struck the long-gone Durban Club Hotel in 1950 when a man fell 18 metres to his death from a window of the inner-city Sydney pub. Located on the south-west corner of Hunter and Elizabeth Streets, the Durban Hotel was… Read More ›
Happy Days
“Here’s luck and a happy return!” New Zealand Diggers swap yarns and drinks to-day with three barmaids at an hotel near their transports. The New Zealanders return on Thursday and they are determined to carry back a full store of… Read More ›
Haunted suicide room left its mark on Hillgrove’s Sydney Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © DESPITE every effort to have it removed, a stubborn, mysterious stain was said to have persisted on the glass of a window of a pub in an old gold mining town on the northern tablelands of… Read More ›