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 ›
NSW hotels
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 ›
His daily drink
The Commercial Hotel, Picton SYDNEY, February 22. John Procter, licencee of the Commercial Hotel, Picton died suddenly last night, and at the inquest to-day a verdict that death was due to heart failure accelerated by alcohol was returned. From the… Read More ›
Wagon Wheel Hotel, St Marys
RIOT OVER BEER SYDNEY. December 21.— Windows were smashed and beer glasses hurled when 300 workers demonstrated outside the Park View Hotel, St. Mary’s, 35 miles from Sydney, early to-night. The demonstration was a protest at the hotel’s policy on Christmas bottle beer issue!… Read More ›
Marble Bar makes comeback
SYDNEY’S well loved and well remembered Marble Bar, of the old Adams Hotel, is to reappear early next year. The entire 45ft. square of Victorian opulence, mecca of sentimental drinkers for 75 years, and dismantled two years ago, is now… Read More ›
Parkview Hotel, Alexandria
From bloodhouse to gentrified watering hole By MICK ROBERTS © REVIEW: Who would have thought that Alexandria’s Parkview Hotel was once one of Sydney’s toughest pubs, the haunt of hard drinking men, frequented by members of the notorious razor gangs that… Read More ›
Kopke the albino talking crow
“Six o’clock ! Get out !” No longer will that familiar squawk be lheard at a hotel near the Haymarket, for Kopke, the famous white crow, died yesterday. Five years ago Kopke was presented to Mr. Norman Barrie, licensee of… Read More ›