By BILL BEATTY DESERTED homesteads in the outback country are by no means uncommon, but a deserted hotel – fully furnished – is a novelty, at least in these days. Yet there is such a hotel near the old mining township… Read More ›
Publicans
Mrs Watford’s pub
ANOTHER chapter in the eventful history of the Hotel York, King Street, City, was begun at the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court last Monday.The hotel is to have a new licensee. Or rather, the old one is to come back again.Back over the door will go… Read More ›
Publicans and guests ‘got by’ in one-day hotel strike
Illawarra Mercury Thursday 8 December 1949: Hotel bars in the Illawarra district were closed on Thursday owing to the one day stop work meeting of members of the Hotels and Restaurant Employees’ Union. For publicans’ wives and families it was one of the busiest days on record,… Read More ›
Patronised same hotel for 62 years.
Won’t Have Pints. First customer to drink from one of the new 20 oz. pints at the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, yesterday was Mr. Bob Hall, 87, who has been drinking at that hotel for 62 years. “That is the… Read More ›
Fatal fall down a hotel cellar
An inquest was held at the City Coroner’s Court concerning the death of Michael Norris, 56, late licensee of the Port Jackson Hotel,George-street North, which occurred at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital on Sunday last, the result of injuries sustained through falling down a cellar… Read More ›
Micky the parrot worked for charity at Clifton’s Imperial Hotel
BUSINESS identities, Rube and Jack Hargrave took over the management of the Imperial Hotel at Clifton, north of Wollongong, in 1956. The husband and wife team operated the cliff side pub in the Illawarra region of NSW for 17 years… Read More ›
Vale: The Dora Dora Hotel, Talmalmo
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 ›
Vale, a sailors’ pub: Port Hotel, Port Adelaide
PORT Adelaide pubs reflect South Australia’s maritime history in catering to the sailors of trading ships. The earliest recorded was the Port Hotel, which opened in 1838 – two years before the port was officially declared. The first hotel at the… Read More ›
Hotel Attractions
A RECENT news item tells that at a Grafton (NSW) hotel the barman keeps frogs in the bar in order to keep the place free from cockroaches. This recalls the fact that many country publicans have a wide variety of attractions in order to… Read More ›
A mass murdering publican and punting at the Royal Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © WAY before pokies and TAB machines, pub drinkers found other means to gamble, and try their luck at winning a ‘quid’ or two. Cards, dice, billiards, bagatelle and other illegal lures were often used by publicans… Read More ›