By MICK ROBERTS © WE ended our 2018 road trip to the former gold mining villages and towns of central west NSW by calling into historic Canowindra, located between Orange and Cowra. Where the town’s pubs trade is the curving main street, which… Read More ›
CONTINUING our road trip to the former gold mining towns of central west NSW, we left the Railway Hotel at Spring Hill for the charm of another single storey brick pub, the Cargo Inn. The drive from Spring Hill, via… Read More ›
I RECKON it’s more than appropriate that a bloke who watched the first passenger train in NSW puff its way between Sydney and Granville in 1855 names his pub the Railway Hotel. Among the thousands of Sydneysiders who gathered to… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © OUR 2018 road trip to the Hunter Valley, included a visit to the grand old Commercial Hotel at Morpeth. There seems to have been two Commercial Hotels trading in Morpeth, the first licensed by Moses Murphy in… Read More ›
I DROPPED by the North Annandale Hotel, in Sydney’s inner-west, for a beer after work today. It’s a ripper. The pub was busy with what looked like a regular afternoon crowd, watching sport on the large screens, or chatting over… Read More ›
ON Time Gents’ road trips, we sometimes stumble upon pubs that can only be described as pure treasures. On one of our recent Sunday drives we visited a number of small villages and towns in the central west region of… Read More ›
OF the five pubs we visited in the Lake Macquarie area of NSW over the Queens Birthday Long Weekend, the Great Northern at Teralba takes the crown as the most traditional working class watering hole. It’s a ripper. You… Read More ›
THE Minmi Hotel is the last ‘man standing’ in a coal mining settlement that once boasted a dozen places where the inhabitants could ‘wet their whistle’. By the late 1870s, the township had 500 men employed at the local colliery… Read More ›
THE second stop on our visit to West Wallsend district’s watering holes this weekend was Lake Macquarie’s second oldest pub – The Museum Hotel. The West Wallsend pub – the last of the town’s pubs – opened in 1889, and… Read More ›