REVIEW: We paid a visit to Erskinville’s Swanson Hotel over the weekend for lunch, and were pleasantly surprised. The former Kurrajong Hotel, bought by the Balmain Pub Group, was transformed into a semi-upmarket watering hole, with a British West… Read More ›
REVIEW: There’s something special about a working class, traditional style Australian pub – especially in Sydney. Sadly though, they’re vanishing as quickly as the characters who frequent them. Today’s weekend pub lunch took us to the Dunkirk Hotel, or ‘The… Read More ›
THERE was a mopping-up process in Cessnock on Saturday. Habitues of hotels remained in their favourite haunts until the beer was consumed, and then marched en masse to the next hotel where beer was on tap. This continued until the… Read More ›
REVIEW: Woolloomooloo’s Tilbury Hotel was the destination for this weekend’s pub lunch; a pub of contradiction, which I’ll explain a little later… Although its working class, waterside worker days have been long assigned to the pages of history, the modernised Tilbury… Read More ›
The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel at the Junction, Newcastle, which was licensed on December 13, 1869, and has been in the possession of the McAnliffe family for about 50 years, has closed its doors. It was the oldest hotel building… Read More ›
Owing to the brewery employees strike the Cessnock hotels, in common with many others have had no beer on tap for some time. The other day the proprietor of the Neath Hotel obtained several kegs of beer from somewhere. The… Read More ›
Three Sydney motorists, tired, hot, and more than just thirsty, flung wide the doors of a Wollongong Hotel, and marched up to the bar. ‘Three mugs!’ one of them said to the fair one behind the counter. ‘Yes?’ she replied,… Read More ›
Bulli’s main street, much how the tippling civic father would have seen in 1888 when he dropped into one of the four pubs for a bottle of lager. The third and fourth building on the left is the Railway Hotel,… Read More ›
TODAY’S deluge was responsible for many unusual incidents. Here water is gushing from between the tiles on the outside wall of the Carlton Hotel [Sydney]; the wall resembles a fountain as barman Ted Stagpoole filled a glass. –The Sydney Sun… Read More ›
WHILE fumigating the landing on the second floor of the New York Hotel, in George street, Sydney in 1921, Robert Rose was overcome by escaping fumes. The publican of the New York Hotel and his cook were almost overcome by… Read More ›