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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
A certain hotel in Bourke was once noted for its homing frog; it may be there now for all I know. Some of its off-“spring” are doubtless doing the polka along the Darling bank. Well, this particular frog habitually resided under the beer taps… Read More ›
FORMER world bantamweight champion, Jimmy Carruthers, claims that serving beer in a crowded bar is harder than a day’s gymnasium work. Carruthers, who is trying out the hotel business, spent his first full day of work at the Terminus Hotel, Singleton, on Friday. “There was a record crowd for the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © AT the harbour end of the Pitt Street Mall, in the heart of Sydney’s busiest shopping precinct, stands a five storey reminder of how the city’s colonial pubs developed. There’s no better example of the evolution… Read More ›
A WIDE spread man hunt got underway when a popular young police constable was shot dead during a botched pub robbery in Sydney’s west in 1903. Constable Samuel ‘William’ Long was 37 when he was cold bloodily shot in the… Read More ›
THE Great Western Coffee Palace was designed by Sydney City Architect and built at the corner of Hay Street and Sussex Street, Haymarket in 1914 by the Sydney City Council as a ‘ temperance hotel’. It was located on land resumed… Read More ›