By MICK ROBERTS © THE O’Hara family just couldn’t shake the legacy of their predecessors. Despite the Hides not building or hosting the landmark hotel at the corner of Lake and Shields Streets, in the northern Queensland city of Cairns,… Read More ›
Queensland hotels
Customers at the Queensland Hotel, Coolangatta queued when beer was in short supply
RETIRED journalist and one time publican, Philip Derriman, now living with his wife in Oberon, on the NSW Southern Highlands, has put together this interesting story for Time Gents about his father, Bernard Derriman. My father, Bernard Derriman (1902-77), widely… Read More ›
The North Queensland pub named after the tragic death of Aboriginal woman, Kowaha
I SUPPOSE a pub named after a tragic event in Australian history, should share a few stories of misery alongside its tales of cheer. The Leap Hotel, located on the Bruce Highway, about 20 kilometres north-west of Mackay in north… Read More ›
Road Trip: The pubs of far north Queensland’s back country
By MICK ROBERTS © THEY’RE a hardy bunch, those who call far north Queensland’s back country home. They have to be. It’s harsh country, as we discovered on our road trip to Chillagoe, 200km west of Cairns, late in 2020…. Read More ›
Road Trip: Millaa Millaa and beyond
OUR road trip to north Queensland in September 2020 provided us with the opportunity of visiting the small rural townships of Millaa Millaa, Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet. While we’ve visited the Atherton Tablelands in the past, this time we had… Read More ›
Queen’s Hotel, Mossman
A COUNTRY HOTEL M.A. Tyrell’s Hotel at the Mossman, Port Douglas. (Photo by H. C. P. Crees.) One of the rising localities of North Queensland is the Mossman River in the locality of Port Douglas. Here the rich river flats… Read More ›
Royal Hotel, Brisbane
AIRY, SPACIOUS BARS AND LOUNGES Royal Hotel Has New Features ENTIRELY remodelled from roof to cellar, and the very latest ideas in hotel construction incorporated, the old Royal Hotel, for many years a landmark in Queen-street, is now one of… Read More ›
Pub resorts to sawn-off bottles, jars and enamel mugs during war time beer glass shortages
AUSTERITY BEER MUGS BEER AT Hides Hotel, Cairns, is served in sawn-off beer bottles, coffee jars, enamel mugs, and honey jars. The manager says all the hotel’s drinking glasses have been “souvenired.” Prices for drinks range from 9d to 3/6,… Read More ›
Kingaroy’s not-so temporary Broadway Hotel
THIS grand structure was branded Queensland’s strangest hotel in 1934. The “temporary bar”, serving the license purposes of the Broadway Hotel, near Kingaroy, had been serving-up beer for 21 months when this grainy photo was published in the Brisbane Week on January… Read More ›