FREE BEER ! Street cleaners envy their opposite numbers down in Tumut, that picturesque and, slubrius town, which expects to be a city some 25 years hence when the Snowy River project nears completion. In that shire a very old… Read More ›
NSW hotels
Cross dressing with a difference
PRACTICAL jokers are to be found everywhere, and even in our little town (of Wollongong, NSW) there is no exception to the rule. A day or two ago one of these practical jokers was at work in one of our… Read More ›
Arrest of a Supposed Madman
A BULLI SENSATION BULLI. Tuesday – A man named John Reynolds, who was discharged last week from the lunatic asylum, became dangerously mad this morning. Reynolds, with his brother, was sent several months ago to the asylum, suffering from religious… Read More ›
Kiwi publican hosted Sydney’s grandest hotels before murdering his wife and taking his own life
By MICK ROBERTS © THE life of one of Sydney’s most successful publicans, a man who hosted some of the harbour city’s grandest tourist hotels, ended tragically in 1935 after he murdered his wife while she slept, and he then… Read More ›
Fire destroyed Albion Park’s Commercial Hotel
ESTABLISHED in 1880, the Albion Park Hotel, located in the Illawarra region of NSW, was originally built by English pioneer, Gabriel Timbs. Timbs was a native of Berkshire, England. He was born in 1824, and came to the colony of… Read More ›
Man Struck by Lorry; Hurled into Hotel Bar
A MAN was struck by a runaway semi-trailer lorry on Friday and knocked through the doorway into the public bar of the Wollongong Hotel. The man, George Scott, 58, of 91 Corrimal street, Wollongong, had just had a drink in the bar and walked out… Read More ›
The 1948 beer strike left Sydney dry and thirsty
By MICK ROBERTS © A STRIKE of brewery maintenance workers in 1948, just as Sydney was showing some signs of recovery from beer shortages and rationing during and after World War II, had a profound impact on the working class… Read More ›
They’d been ‘milked’ enough
THE recent beer shortage in our town (Tocumwal) recalls 1940, when Broken Hill staged a beer strike during the hottest part of the year. Pubs were open. Beer was “on”. But there were no customers. In the blazing heat (temperatures never below 107 deg.), gangs of… Read More ›
Youngest Publican in NSW
TAMWORTH, Friday.— John James Healion is probably the youngest publican in the State. The Licensing Court transfered the licence of the Central Hotel to him although the police objected, on the ground that Healion is single,and only 21. The young publican will have… Read More ›
Jindabyne Hotel Destroyed
COOMA, Tuesday — Guests ran to safety as fire destroyed the historic hotel at Old Jindabyne early this morning. The tremendous heat from the fire melted beer glasses and exploded liquor bottles. All that remained of the bar today was six poles and a heap of rubble. Although the… Read More ›