A 32 year-old mother of five was killed on Sunday when a beer barrel exploded in a hotel bar. The incident occurred in the bar of the Karara Hotel, 30 miles south-west of Warwick, Queensland. The woman, Elva Dorothy Forbes, wife of the… Read More ›
Queensland hotels
Buller does a ‘pub crawl’
BULLER Churchill, bulldog mascot of the Brisbane Naval Depot, was A.W.L. yesterday afternoon, and will be confined to barracks for a week for his misbehaviour. He wandered away from the depot early in the afternoon and went on a ‘pub… Read More ›
Publicans ‘clean sweep’ win in the Melbourne Cup
IN Charters Towers recently a man gave the hotel keepers a real turn. He victimised 10 of them with forged cheques. There has since been an amusing sequel to the affair. One publican remarked that the forgeries were a “clean… 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 ›
Politicians’nip
Public Bars Closed BRISBANE, Thursday. Last night the Parliamentary bar (pictured) was open until 10.25pm, at which hour the House adjourned. Every other bar in Queensland closed at 8pm. –The Sun (Sydney) Thursday 6 September 1923.
Draught Beer Again
Draught beer being loaded on to trucks at the Castlemaine Perkins Brewery at Milton this morning, for delivery to city hotels. –The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.) Wednesday 13 October 1937
Brisbane’s Ship Inn: Sisters’ mystery £6,000 windfall
SISTERS Lizzie , Millie and Elsie Stephens, of Torrens Street, Annerley, are trying to solve a £6,000 mystery. The “Brisbane Telegraph” received word today that first prize in an inter-State consultation was won by ticket No. 24295. It was bought in the name “Sisters”, c/- Miss Elsie Stephens, Torrens… Read More ›
Brisbane’s Australian Hotel
Jordan’s Australian Hotel, corner of Queen and Albert Streets, Brisbane. The pub traded in what is today the Queen Street Mall. ‘Bygone Brisbane and Vintage Queensland’ Facebook Group member, Kevin Murtgagh posted the following comments on the Australian Hotel: Fred… Read More ›
How the two-storey Landsborough pub was moved over a kilometre by bullock dray
By MICK ROBERTS © OVER a two-week period, a historic two-storey pub in a small Queensland town on the Sunshine Coast hinterland was painstakingly moved over a kilometre by bullock drays to its new home – without losing one days… Read More ›
