WHEN the body of bushranger Joe Governor was laid out on a table of Singleton’s Caledonian Hotel several hundred curious people gathered to gaze at his corpse. Crowds prevented from entering the pub by police gathered around the windows of… Read More ›
The Grand Hotel: “a combination of beauty, compactness and comfort” THE Grand Hotel, Temora (NSW) was built and opened by local publican, William Kenny, who had operated the Terminus Hotel on the opposite corner. Kenny first applied to have the… Read More ›
LOCATED in the heart of historic Gulgong within the beautiful Mudgee wine region, the Prince of Wales Hotel has been welcoming guests since 1872. Classically country and a little quirky, the pub delivers on all levels. Offering food, award-winning accommodation,… Read More ›
TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN Body Found in Hotel Yard Gloom was cast over the whole of Gulgong (NSW) last Friday when it was reported that Mrs Myra Herrick, wife of Mr Ron Herrick, was found dead at the… Read More ›
The Illumination of Gulgong. Mr. George Waite, the Gulgong plumber, has just completed the fitting up of an ascetylene gas plant at the Post Office Hotel, and that building is now splendidly lighted within and without. The ascetylene gas has… Read More ›
Punter puts it over Gulgong hotelkeeper AFTER last Gulgong race meeting a sad-eyed man approached Charlie Copeland at the Centennial Hotel bar and moodily asked for a “punter of beer.” “A punter!” exclaimed Charlie. “That’s a new one on me…. Read More ›
50 IN BAR WHEN OLD BUILDING CRASHED WITH a terrific crash, tons of bricks, woodwork, and iron collapsed at the old Wentworth Hotel, Parramatta-road, Flemington, shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday. Portion of the debris shattered the back wall of the… Read More ›
Strange But True One of the strangest graves in the ancient Western Road cemetery at Parramatta (NSW) is that of a parrot. For twenty years the bird entertained travellers at one of the hotels, and the wife of the hotelkeeper become… Read More ›
Discovery of a Skeleton. While engaged in repairing the Exchange Hotel, Murrumburrah (NSW) on Friday week, two men unearthed the skeleton of a human being under a site formerly occupied by a bedroom. The remains, which were found about nine… Read More ›
CUSTOMERS with drinks in their hands rushed out of the bar of the Bald Face Stag Hotel, Petersham, when it caught fire yesterday. The blaze began in the rear bar of the hotel when some tins of paint caught fire. Within… Read More ›