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 ›
NSW hotels
Choked on a right Royal sav
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 ›
Hotel customers nearly ‘stung’
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 ›
Biting the hand that feeds you
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 ›
Yo, Ho, Ho at the Chamberlain
SYDNEY – A 10-gallon keg of overproof rum was stolen from the cellar of the Chamberlain Hotel, Pitt Street, yesterday afternoon. Thieves took advantage of the crowded bar. and are said to have rolled the barrel through the public bar of the… Read More ›
Thirsty New Year’s Eve
WITH temperatures rising to 90 degrees in Newcastle yesterday, the hotels were thronged with thirsty customers – so thirsty that the beer supplies failed in some cases. This group made a typical scene during the afternoon. – Newcastle Morning Herald Thursday… Read More ›
Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
REVIEW: She’s not your prettiest pub, but she’s definitely one of Sydney’s friendliest. The Friend in Hand, in the quiet back streets of Glebe, is also unique in that it retains the quaint name it was given over 150 years… Read More ›
Scratchy sleep at Darlington’s Royal Hotel
THE Royal Hotel at the corner of Abercrombie and Codrington Streets, Darlington, like many Sydney pubs, struggled to survive through the war years. Beer rationing, and even, as the following story reveals, restrictions on the availability of bed linen made… Read More ›