The frontier pubs of Cooktown By MICK ROBERTS © THERE are not many places to quench the thirst on the three hour journey along the Mulligan Highway to Cooktown, but the quality of the pubs on the 250km trek sure… Read More ›
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Queensland hotels
Grand Hotel, Emu Park
Showing old Grand Hotel on the site occupied by Pine Beach Hotel at Emu Park, Queensland. It was destroyed by fire, in which a school inspector lost his life. – The Capricornian Thursday 31 March 1927
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Imperial Hotel, Emu Park
FIRE AT EMU PARK The first picture is one of the Imperial Hotel, Emu Park [Qld] – the owner of which was Mrs Catherine Begg, licensee and owner of the Grand Central Hotel, Emu Park, and the lessee of which… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Far North Queensland, Part 3
The pubs of Port Douglas and Mossman By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN the mill is open, pub business booms in the sugar cane town of Mossman. We spoke with two publicans and a few local drinkers as part of our… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Far North Queensland, Part 2
The disappearing pubs of Gordonvale By MICK ROBERTS © SITTING at the end of the bar on his usual stool, ‘Pop’ gave me a cautious glance when I walked into the Great Northern Hotel at Gordonvale and started up a… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Far North Queensland, Part 1
By MICK ROBERTS © The pubs of Cairns City, Stratford, Redlynch and Edmonton CAIRNS’ pub culture has changed considerably since the mid 1980s when I first ventured to the far northern Queensland city as a young man. The crowded bars,… Read More ›
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Hen gets ‘clucky’ on beer
Here she is, Hilda, the beer-drinking hen: At Jack Ahem’s Hamilton Hotel [Brisbane, Qld] they’ve got hen which drinks beer — and cat which puts hen to bed when it gets ‘clucky’ on grog! “Hilda the Hen’s” penchant for beer… Read More ›
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West Coast Hotel’s famous frescoes
By Mick Roberts © A HOTEL in Far-North-Queensland once featured lively frescoes telling the story of the Palmer goldfield — from the early rush, to the rust which coated the derelict workings. The frescoes were painted by 44-year-old Sydney artist,… Read More ›
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Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
OLD DUNMORE ARMS HOTEL BRISBANE newspaper, The Week on December 7 1923, published images of two pubs that graced the corner of George and Elizabeth Streets in the Queensland capital. The first pub on the corner was the Dunmore Arms… Read More ›
