A SHEARER named Emanuel Consett Polsen came to an untimely death in the bar of Uralla’s Royal Hotel in 1912 after an argument erupted with Alexander Handcock. The Border Morning Mail reported on Monday February 12, 1912: Emanuel Consett Polsen… Read More ›
FINDING a pub in Australia that is more than 200 years old is a difficult task. In fact there are just two pubs that I know of that can lay claim to having an establishment date going back two centuries… Read More ›
The Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw, today officially visited the inside and outside of an hotel. With inspector Fergusson he examined proposed alterations, including addition of a women’s parlor, to the Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst. The police are objecting to the… Read More ›
THE Sydney Morning Herald’s Column 8, penned by “Granny”, often featured interesting and sometimes amusing snippets of pub information during the 1940s and 50s… Here is a selection… CAN’T WIN. They’re telling this tale around the city of a fellow’s… Read More ›
REVIEW: The Carrington Hotel sits in what was once one of Sydney’s toughest suburbs. She was a rough old pub in her day, frequented by shady characters, SP bookies, gun carrying drinkers, and customers who generally knew how to use… Read More ›
A swagman, whose name is unknown, dropped dead outside the Royal Hotel at Murrurundi on Friday night. It appears that the man bought some saveloys, took a bite of one, and apparently attempted to swallow it. The result was that… Read More ›
Many Dungogites were nearly “stung” at Pat O’Neill’s Bank Hotel on Saturday afternoon (says Dungog “Chronicle”). It was no reflection on their sobriety, however, or on the quality of the beer provided by the genial Pat. It appears some of… Read More ›
A WOMAN was fined £2 in Central Court for having bitten a publican. Sidney Howard, licensee of the Shakespeare Hotel, Devonshire Street, Sydney, said Nancy Sharpe, 25, of Vaucluse, called at his hotel, abused him smashed a plateglass door with… Read More ›