THE Aberdare Hotel at Weston, NSW, was built by Englishman, John Champion who came to Australia at the age of 21 in 1876. Champion was coal miner, who later went into business, hosting the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Hotel… Read More ›
Publicans
How to pull a beer
THIS week an American visitor complained of the way beer is served in Sydney hotels – This week 27 barmaids and barmen employed by a well-known Sydney hotelkeeper, received with their pay envelopes, instructions on the art of pulling… Read More ›
The Singing Publican
By MICK ROBERTS © A FLAMBOYANT opera singer, who gained his stage name from actress Ann Sheridan, was the publican responsible for giving Jamberoo its English Tudor style pub. The larger than life character is said to have renovated… Read More ›
Belmore Park Hotel, Surry Hills
NOW a bustling little café, the Belmore Park Hotel at the corner of Mary and Reservoir Streets, Surry Hills was established in 1870 by 33-year-old Henry Qualmer and his wife Teresa. The Qualmers hosted the pub through the 1870s, later… Read More ›
Belmore Hotel, Belmore
THE Belmore Hotel began business controversially in 1928. Parramatta publican, Harry Gadd transferred his license of the Gate House Hotel to the corner of Burwood Road and Tobruk Avenue Belmore in Sydney’s inner-west on August 14 1928. The 51-year-old publican… Read More ›
Tattersalls Hotel, Barringun
BY John Larkins* IN the good old days when the shearing shed at Tinnenburra was the biggest in the world, Annie Lack’s arms grew tired just opening beer bottles. But the shed is disused, silent now. The shearers have gone… Read More ›
Bridge Hotel, Forest Lodge
LIKE Melbourne, Sydney too had its gold-rush pubs. The former Bridge Hotel at Forest Lodge, in Sydney’s inner-west, was established in August 1877 by Irishman Tom McInerney. A pioneering member of the Irish National League in Sydney, Tom built an… Read More ›
You’re terrible Muriel
By John Larkins* The wind howled its lament across the drought country, through the gasping trees beside the track, and raised a flurry of dust from a road cracked like the lips of a man lost in the blazing desert…. Read More ›
Forest Lodge Hotel, Forest Lodge
TUCKED away in a quiet back-street off busy Parramatta Road in the tiny inner-west suburb of Forest Lodge, 4km from the Sydney CBD, can be found an interesting pub, named after the suburb in which it trades. The Forest Lodge… Read More ›
Bellevue Hotel, Paddington
UNEXPECTEDLY, in a quiet back-street of Paddington, trades a rejuvenated relict from Sydney’s past – the Bellevue Hotel. Originally licensed by James Quigley in July 1878 as the Elphin Hotel, the pub is a survivor of… Read More ›