By MICK ROBERTS © LEGENDARY mountain horseman, 29-year-old Jimmy Kiss opened Bega’s Royal Hotel on the NSW South Coast in 1873. Jimmy was a well-known Snowy Mountain’s rider, who was “never known to be unseated by any bucking horse”. Reportedly,… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © GORDON Guy Hack was one of Western Australia’s most successful hoteliers during the first half of the 20th century. At his death he hosted one of Perth’s largest pubs, and was among the state’s wealthiest hoteliers…. Read More ›
ITALIAN immigrant Emanuel Neich was given a wedding gift that many Australian blokes would envy – a pub! The accidental Australian arrived in Sydney in 1826 after taking passage to ‘New Holland’, believing he was on his way to the… Read More ›
Part of the collection of 14,000 beer labels owned by Mr. Ray Pantano, licensee of the Empress of India Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Mr. Pantano has contacts all over the world and hopes to surpass the record 125,000 labels owned by an American collector…. Read More ›
JOE Wallis (pictured), hosted the Cricketers’ Arms Hotel, in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills during the 1940s. The popular publican was born Joseph John Newton, to working-class parents, at St Peters. As a teenager, he boxed for money and… Read More ›
WHEN publican Solomon Wiseman died in 1838, he was buried next to his first wife in the garden of his hotel overlooking the Hawkesbury River. However, it wasn’t to be his last resting place, with the former convict to be… Read More ›
A cock fight came off a few days since [at the Lakes Creek Hotel] between – well, say North and South ‘Sintown’ – for £10 a-side. The arrangements were of the most complete character, no meddling blue-coat putting in an appearance. The South… Read More ›
Although the story states the licensee of the North Richmond Hotel was E.J. Baker, it was in fact, Stephen Henry Baker. Stephen Baker held the license of the North Richmond Hotel from 1941 to 1957 (except for a few times when… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›