THE Bank Hotel formerly stood in Hunter street, Newcastle, on the site now occupied by the Oxford Hotel, the sale of which was an announced this week. The block of land at the corner of Hunter, Brown and Crown Streets… Read More ›
NSW hotels
New glasses for beer
Smaller beer glasses have been introduced in Sydney hotels, following an increase in the excise duty. The old and the new glasses are shown in this picture, taken to-day in a city hotel. –The Sun (Sydney, NSW ) Tuesday 19 September… Read More ›
Long drought ends for beer drinkers
ALMOST A LOST ART – drinkers lining the bar at the Orient Hotel, George-street North, today, where the beer “came on” at 11.20 am. There was little talk. – The Sun (Sydney, NSW)Wednesday 10 April 1946. * The end of World War II meant… Read More ›
Beer Balancing Act: Newtown dog’s party trick
WITH only two legs, this would be difficult; but a Newtown fox terrier made balancing on the top of an inverted beer glass seem simple enough. Maybe she hoped that the effort would be rewarded by a full glass…. Read More ›
The Crossways Hotel, Enfield
THE history of the Crossways Hotel at Enfield, in south-west Sydney, can be traced back to the 1840s when it originally traded on the Liverpool Road near the Cooks River crossing as a ramshackled coaching inn, known as ‘The… Read More ›
Historic Gundurimba inn demolished
The Northern Star newspaper reported on April 10 1936 that the old landmark, the Farmers’ Home Hotel 10km outside Lismore, on the NSW north coast, was under demolition. “If walls could speak, what tales these pictured here might tell!,” reported… Read More ›
Dulwich Hill’s Bob Deering took his pet snake, Murgatroyd to the pub “every evening”
LIKES HIS BEER Murgatroyd the snake drinks a skinful of beer a day – to keep rats away. Murgatroyd, coiled around his master, Bob Deering, of Dulwich Hill, is taken to the hotel every evening for his middy. Deering said his pet… Read More ›
Accidental Australian was given his pub as a wedding gift
ITALIAN immigrant Emanuel Neich was given a wedding gift that many Australian blokes would envy – a pub! The accidental Australian arrived in Sydney in 1826 after taking passage to ‘New Holland’, believing he was on his way to the… Read More ›