DURING the late 1940s, it was reported that you could have a beer at Albany’s London Hotel, with a dash of jive. The pub, on the far south coast of Western Australia, you see, was hosted by Harry Ward, a… Read More ›
Publicans
Warrawong publican’s body exhumed
THE transfer of the license of the Post Office Hotel Quambone, NSW (about 30 miles from Coonamble) to Comrol House at the corner of King and Cowper Streets at Warrawong was granted in June 1949. The first publican was Reginald Douglas Tolley who had served… Read More ›
Publican’s Last Tragic Tune
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 ›
Gould’s Cecil Inn
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, Morwell
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 ›
The pubs of Cocky Bennett
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 ›
Bushfires were a constant threat to ‘The Eagle on the Hill’
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 ›
The gun battle at Wheelers Hill pub
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 ›
Old Bill’s Pub Yarns
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 ›