Tragic Occurrence at a concert. death of ‘Andy’ blanchard, the vocalist. “Their heads nestled closer Together”. [Press Telegraph Association] Wollongong, Thursday. The fourth annual concert under the auspices of the Dapto Agricultural and Horticultural Society, held last night in the… Read More ›
Read Time Gents’ history of the Cecil Inn: Roast beef, crisp brown spuds and a few ‘long-uns’ at the Cecil Inn AFTER leaving Moe [Victoria] by the coach for Walhalla the track is through a mass of scrub country, with… Read More ›
Murdoch’s Hotel, which once faced Morwell Railway Station in Commercial Road, and backed onto George Street, was a landmark pub for over 75 years before its demolition in 1964. Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © BETWEEN voyages an old sea captain was a regular visitor to the bar of Sydney’s Club House Hotel during the 1870s and 80s. Accompanying him, sitting on his shoulder – like all good seafaring captains of the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © BUSHFIRES were a constant threat to the Eagle-on-the-Hill Hotel in Adelaide’s Lofty Ranges. Fire destroyed the pub on two occasions, but each time it was rebuilt on the mountain road over the Adelaide Hills to trade… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © FRED Gessner was applauded for his courage fending off three bushrangers who attempted to rob his pub in the year 1900. The Wheelers Hill Hotel, where the fierce gun battle occurred over 120 years ago remains… Read More ›
DURING the latter part of the 1940s, and early 1950s a popular article appeared on the front page of the Brisbane Telegraph by the name of “Old Bill’s Column”. In nearly every issue there was a reference to a pub… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE host of the Illawarra Hotel, Hilda Condon brought a touch of glamour to the New South Wales Liquor Royal Commission. The Wollongong socialite splashed a little razzle-dazzle – with her trademark styled blue hair, expensive… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE cause of publican Raglan Davey’s violent death in the early hours of October 21, 1886 remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of colonial Australia – was it suicide or murder? Despite suspected foul play,… Read More ›
WHILE a number of customers were collectively ‘blowing the froth off one’ at the Crecy Hotel, Oxford Street, on the morning of March 1, two Prices Branch officers ‘blew into’ the public bar and ordered two middies. Two noggins of the… Read More ›