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 ›
By MICK ROBERTS © JUST why Italian immigrant and Alexandria publican, Benjamin Lafiura prematurely ended his life in such an agonising method will probably never be known. Like the small two storey corner pub where he ended his 48… Read More ›
Mr John Dorahy, president of the Illawarra branch of the U.L.V.A. (Later Australian Hotels Association), and licensee of the Wollongong Hotel, spent last Thursday ‘resting up,’ when employees at his hotel decided to join in a stoppage for 24 hours… Read More ›
PLUCKY WOMAN Pluckily facing an intruder who had climbed over the balcony, Mrs Chesterton, wife of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, at Parkes (NSW), pointed a bunch of nickel keys at him, forced him into a room, the door… Read More ›
FATAL HOTEL AFFRAY SYDNEY, Monday. A fatal quarrel took place at the Sir John Young Hotel, George-street, tonight. A man named Thomas Jones, aged 48, a wharf laborer, and another man, both being under the influence of liquor, quarrelled and… Read More ›
THE publican of the Yowie Bay Hotel, south of Sydney, made headlines around the country in 1905 when he attempted suicide after the death of his 42-year-old wife. The pretty little pub traded from 1903 to 1918 and was located… Read More ›