THE death of Mr W. Sandover, of Hose Park, in his eighty-seventh year, removes an old publican and politician who was an active public man in Adelaide from the early fifties to the eighties. Going to the Victorian diggings, he… Read More ›
Publicans
White Hart Hotel, Adelaide
THE LATE MR. F. W. A. KLAUER. Mr. Frederick William Augustus Klauer, late landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley street [Adelaide], died on Friday, August 16, at the North Adelaide Private Hospital. The deceased, who was 76 years… Read More ›
Parkview Hotel, Alexandria
From bloodhouse to gentrified watering hole By MICK ROBERTS © REVIEW: Who would have thought that Alexandria’s Parkview Hotel was once one of Sydney’s toughest pubs, the haunt of hard drinking men, frequented by members of the notorious razor gangs that… Read More ›
Commercial’s plucky barmaid
PLUCKY BARMAID When Jack Quigley, a former noted jockey, and now licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Bathurst, was attacked by a man with great ferocity, a barmaid, Mary McNamara, picked up a mallet, used to open barrels of beer, and… Read More ›
Scratchy sleep at Darlington’s Royal Hotel
THE Royal Hotel at the corner of Abercrombie and Codrington Streets, Darlington, like many Sydney pubs, struggled to survive through the war years. Beer rationing, and even, as the following story reveals, restrictions on the availability of bed linen made… Read More ›
Justice Chubb on teetotalers
DURING the reading of an affidavit at the Supreme Court, Townsville, it was stated that a certain person was a strict teetotaller. Mr. Justice Chubb thereupon said: “I very much admire him. I wish I were a teetotaller too. I… Read More ›
Publican’s 270km beer pilgrimage
MR. T. T. FOX, licensee of the Bordertown Hotel, waited from midnight to 8.45 a.m. today at the West End Brewery to replenish his beer supplies, which ran out on Christmas Eve. Mr. Fox was the first in a queue… Read More ›
Road accidents claimed the lives of two publicans of Morphett Vale’s Emu Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © COINCIDENTALLY two publicans of one of South Australia’s oldest trading pubs had their lives cut short as a result of similar tragic accidents. The publicans of the Emu Hotel at Morphet Vale both met their ends… Read More ›
Tragic tale of publican, who accidently shot his lover at the Observer Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © THE publican of Sydney’s Observer Hotel was arrested and charged with murder in 1944, after shooting his lover in a tragic accident that made headlines around the country. This is the heartbreaking tale of Nelson Buchanan Grindal,… Read More ›
Two plucky Irish spinsters and their Brisbane wharfies’ pub
By MICK ROBERTS © The Bowles spinsters were two tough old Brisbane hoteliers who reigned over their wharfies’ pub with iron fists for more than 40 years. Their pub, the Atlas traded at the end of Russell Street, Southbank, about… Read More ›