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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
“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 ›
These three barmaids topped the poll in the Popular Barmaid contest held in aid of the Parents and Citizens’ Federation funds, to provide comforts in schools. The winner was Miss Laurie Hawe (top left), of the Oceanic Hotel, Coogee. Second… Read More ›
REVIEW: Sitting on the busy intersection of inner-west Sydney’s Stanmore and Enmore Roads is a survivor, a business that has stood the test of time, trading through evolving drinking habits and social values, offering the folk of Enmore, Marrickville and… Read More ›
ALMOST A LOST ART – drinkers lining the bar at the Orient Hotel, George-street North (The Rocks), today, where the beer “came on” at 11.20am. There was little talk. – The Sun (Sydney, NSW ) Wednesday 10 April 1946.
HIDDEN IN CEILING OF BUILDING. While making repairs at the Farmers’ Arms Hotel, on the southern road, two miles from Bathurst, the licensee, Mr R. Whitmarsh, found a tin containing about £14 in silver coins, hidden in the ceiling of the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE remaining historic inner-city pubs of Sydney hold countless sad and tragic secrets. After the Great War many soldiers returned to Australia’s shores dealing with personal psychological traumas. This is the likely explanation behind the terrible… Read More ›