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 ›
NOW consigned to the pages of history, the Good Intent Hotel, at Campbelltown, in Sydney’s south-west, traded as a pub for less then 50 years. However, the site’s connection to hotel history stretches back a lot longer. The site was… Read More ›
THE Rising Sun Inn was one of Sydney’s early roadside taverns, first licensed in 1840, and which continued to service travellers along Windsor Road for about 20 years before the site was purchased by the Catholic Church. The inn was… Read More ›
DURING the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Rex Investments, a division of real estate company, L.J. Hooker, established a number of pubs around the suburbs of Sydney and regional Australia. The Rex Group’s first hotel was in Canberra and trades today… Read More ›
FORGET about Australia’s diplomatic crisis with France after the federal government dumped a $90 billion submarine contract with Paris in 2021. In 1995 our relationship with the French could have rock-bottomed a lot more if three blokes from Berry’s Great… Read More ›
[The Canberra Times Wednesday 31 March 1976] OLD PUB TO HELP BURY ITS PAST The contractor reshaping and covering the mine dumps above Captains Flat, Cleary Brothers Pty Ltd, has bought the Captains Flat Hotel to house 30 employees. Mr Dennis Cleary said yesterday that the hotel had been bought… Read More ›