Christmas cheer – Bottles everywhere but not a drop to drink! People who spent days asking in different hotels for bottle beer in vain will not get much satisfaction from this collection of ’empties’ in a corner of a Newcastle… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Criterion Hotel, Moree
FREE BEER All roads led to a bar at Moree the other day, when there was free beer for two hours to commemorate the opening of the Criterion Hotel, a new building which replaces the old Criterion, which was the… Read More ›
Bush pub race meets
THE race meetings promoted by wayside publicans of the Outback are things of the past, and most of the old wayside pubs are things of the past, too, but many old residents of the wide western spaces can still remember… Read More ›
Buried treasure
About five years ago a box jewellery, valued at £200, was stolen out of the safe at Mr W. J. Fimister’s Wollongong Hotel, and although every search was made, no trace of the missing articles could be found. On Wednesday… Read More ›
Rolling out the (new style) barrel
Mr Kevin Vitnell, of Wallsend, lowers a 10-gallon stainless steel keg into the cellar of a city hotel yesterday. Stainless steel kegs are gradually replacing the traditional wooden keg in Newcastle. Brewers report that the timber for the wooden kegs… Read More ›
Zetland Hotel, Zetland
A working Class Pub By MICK ROBERTS © WALKING into the public bar of the Zetland Hotel, in the southern suburbs of Sydney, it’s not difficult to see that this is a working class pub. It’s a fascinating tiled, corner… Read More ›
Rolling out the barrels
The “Beer Barrel Polka” was enacted in earnest at Haymarket today when, following a mishap to a brewers’ waggon, barrels cascaded over the street. Some of the people’s interest waned, however, when it was learned that they were empty. – The… Read More ›
Hotel Gosford
DOG HAS SENSE OF TIME. GOSFORD (NSW), Sunday. – Gosford has a woolly Airedale with a time sense. Basking in the sun all day “Jock” meanders down to the Hotel Gosford punctually at 5 o’clock each evening, forces his way… Read More ›
Ship Inn, Circular Quay, Sydney
RUM CASK ON FIRE SYDNEY Tuesday. when a match was struck in a cellar at Plasto’s Ship Hotel, Circular Quay, to-day, a cask of rum caught fire and the blaze threatened a stack of barrels containing 1000 gallons of liquor. Henry Plasto… Read More ›
Marshal MacMahon Hotel, Wallabadah
Wallabadah is a town in the New England region of NSW. The town is located 55km south of Tamworth on the New England Highway and is about 15km from Quirindi. The heritage-listed Marshall MacMahon Hotel opened for business in March… Read More ›