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 ›
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 ›