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 ›
Publicans
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 ›
Quigley family hosted Paddington’s Bellevue Hotel for almost 60 years
By MICK ROBERTS © UNEXPECTEDLY in a Paddington street 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 a much… Read More ›
Sydney’s notorious Belfields Hotel and its publicans
WHILE Sydney has plenty of colourful pub stories, there’s one watering hole that traded at the corner of King and George Streets in the CBD for over 80 years that’s hard to pass for notoriety. In fact, the corner pub… Read More ›
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Erskineville, and NSW’s first ‘unmarried’ woman publican in over 60 years
Moya made history in 1946 as NSW’s first ‘unmarried’ female publican since 1882 By MICK ROBERTS © BORN into a family of devout Irish Catholics, Dorothy Moya Hartigan could have easily spent her life in a convent, instead of a… Read More ›
Poppa’s Place, aka the Hotel Corones, Charleville
EAST MEETS WEST AT HARRY’S By ELGIN REID CHARLEVILLE, Wednesday. — Out here they call it Poppa’s Place or Harry’s place. Its official name, however, is the Hotel Corones. It is named after its proprietor, Harry Corones, one of the… Read More ›
Barmen strike forces Adelaide’s Imperial Hotel publican behind his bar
As a result of the decision of Adelaide barmen to cease work, following on the 8/ a week reduction, members of the families of many licensees took their places behind the bar on Monday. Max Flannagan of the Imperial Hotel hard at work. – Observer… Read More ›
Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in… Read More ›
Stepney Hotel, Alexandria
By MICK ROBERTS © JUST why Italian immigrant and Alexandria publican, Benjamin Lafiura prematurely ended his life in such an agonising method will probably never be known. Like the small two storey corner pub where he ended his 48… Read More ›
Publican takes it easy
Mr John Dorahy, president of the Illawarra branch of the U.L.V.A. (Later Australian Hotels Association), and licensee of the Wollongong Hotel, spent last Thursday ‘resting up,’ when employees at his hotel decided to join in a stoppage for 24 hours… Read More ›