Do you like a “spot” unmarred by an etiquette-forced minor orgy? This writer complains that he can’t go into a local pub without being pulled into an expensive “circle.” He’s right, too. It’s silly, this etiquette we’ve built around a simple noggin…. Read More ›
Won’t Have Pints. First customer to drink from one of the new 20 oz. pints at the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, yesterday was Mr. Bob Hall, 87, who has been drinking at that hotel for 62 years. “That is the… Read More ›
THE NEW 20 oz. schooner beer glass, with the present 16 oz. schooner glass and the ‘middie.’ The Premier (Mr. McGirr) has announced that 400,000 of these new schooners will be manufactured, tested and stamped by October 1. However, they will not come into use until… Read More ›
An inquest was held at the City Coroner’s Court concerning the death of Michael Norris, 56, late licensee of the Port Jackson Hotel,George-street North, which occurred at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital on Sunday last, the result of injuries sustained through falling down a cellar… Read More ›
BUSINESS identities, Rube and Jack Hargrave took over the management of the Imperial Hotel at Clifton, north of Wollongong, in 1956. The husband and wife team operated the cliff side pub in the Illawarra region of NSW for 17 years… Read More ›
Nurses from hospitals were in the City yesterday for the Wattle Day collection. Nurse M. Graham, of Watt-street Mental Hospital, was a successful saleswoman after she had ventured into a hotel during the 4 to 6pm rush. – Newcastle Morning… Read More ›
THE Dora Dora Hotel traded for over 100 years on the road between Talmalmo and Woomargama – in the south east part of the Riverina, close to the NSW and Victorian border – before it sadly closed for business and… Read More ›
Part of an archive of forensic photography created by the NSW Police between 1912 and 1964. With the introduction of 6pm closing the phenomenon known as the ‘six o’clock swill’ emerged. Approximately 90 per cent of beer was consumed between… Read More ›
The Southern Highlands News reports today (January 1 2015): ONE of the Highlands most historic pubs has shut its doors for the last time. The Grand Hotel in Bowral closed indefinitely last week due to rental increases. It is understood the pub… Read More ›
SYDNEY’S original Rosehill Racecourse Hotel was located at the corner of Eleanor and Alfred Streets Rosehill before its forced closure in 1929. Established in the mid 1880s, owner, Tooth and Company brewery transferred the pub’s license to a purpose built hotel… Read More ›