Breasting the bar earns Margaret time in the watch house MARGARET Carey, after enjoying a couple of rums at the Strong Man Inn, Parramatta in September 1828, was ordered to spend time in the watch house “until sober” after souveniring… Read More ›
Parramatta Hotels
Vauxhall Inn at Granville marked railway opening with “buckets of rum”
A Bucket of Rum An interesting souvenir of the opening of the first railway in New South Wales from Sydney to Parramatta Junction is a miniature bucket. On September 22nd, 1855, the opening day, the proprietor of the Vauxhall Hotel,… Read More ›
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Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in… Read More ›
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Burial service for parrot
Strange But True One of the strangest graves in the ancient Western Road cemetery at Parramatta (NSW) is that of a parrot. For twenty years the bird entertained travellers at one of the hotels, and the wife of the hotelkeeper become… Read More ›
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Rosehill’s two hotels
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 ›
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Rising Sun Hotel, Parramatta NSW
THIS very interesting illustration, is re-produced from ‘The Illustrated SydneyNews,’ of May 6, 1854, kindly sent to us by Mr. J. Richardson Clark. The illustration appeared at the top of an advertisement, which was as follows: MORT and CO. have… Read More ›
