THERE’S a modern looking pub trading at McMahon’s Point, North Sydney that gives no indication of its interesting connection with Colonial Sydney. John Blue was granted a “new license” for a two-storey sandstone inn on March 7 1854. He named… Read More ›
THE Waterworks Hotel at Botany reached a significant milestone in 2018 when it joined a select number of Sydney pubs that have marked 150 years of trade. Named after the nearby Sydney Waterworks, which was established in 1858, the little… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © OUR 2018 road trip to the Hunter Valley, included a visit to the grand old Commercial Hotel at Morpeth. There seems to have been two Commercial Hotels trading in Morpeth, the first licensed by Moses Murphy in… Read More ›
IF you were planning to get plastered on the grog at Jim Jordan’s pub, you chose the wrong bar. The publican of Tabulam Hotel, in the far north-east of NSW, between Tenterfield and Casino, was known as ‘Limit Jim’. Jim,… Read More ›
ON a road trip to the upper Hunter, we stopped at the bandaged Chelmsford Hotel at Kurri Kurri. The poor old lady was undergoing a bit of a facelift, and she wasn’t in the best state to be photographed…. Read More ›
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 at… Read More ›
THIS week an American visitor complained of the way beer is served in Sydneyhotels – This week 27 barmaids and barmen employed by a well-known Sydneyhotelkeeper, received with their pay envelopes, instructions on the art of pulling and serving beer…. Read More ›
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 ›
NOW a bustling little café, the former 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,… Read More ›
THE Belmore Hotel, in Sydney’s south-west, began business controversially in 1928. Parramatta publican, Harry Gadd transferred his license of the Park Gate Hotel to the corner of Burwood Road and Tobruk Avenue, Belmore on August 14 1928. The 51-year-old publican… Read More ›