By MICK ROBERTS © ABOUT the same time as the Corrimal Hotel opened for business on the NSW South Coast almost 120 years ago, quite a lot of excitement was being created by “a small coterie of feminine busybodies” to… Read More ›
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The wild men of the 22 mile camp
By MICK ROBERTS © AMERICA’S Wild West could be considered tame compared to the ruggered wilderness seperating Sydney from Illawarra’s far northern coal mining villages during the mid to late 1880s. Notorious shantytowns sprang up in the bushland to service… Read More ›
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Red Bull Inn, Ultimo, Sydney: 1839-1861
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE was hardly a dull moment in the short but colourful history of Sydney’s Red Bull Inn, a little pub that traded for 20 years on today’s Broadway. Believed to be constructed of stone, the… Read More ›
