“LET’S drop into the ‘Shakey’ for a bite and a beer,” was my suggestion as we battled the traffic towards Sydney from Wollongong today. A morning visiting dad in Coledale Hospital, and the thirst inducing drive north to Sydney, through… Read More ›
WE ended our recent 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 is partly an urban… 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 Australia’s first passenger train puff its way between Sydney and Granville in 1855 names his pub the Railway Hotel. Among the thousands of Sydneysiders who gathered… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © CONTINUING our road trip to the Upper Hunter, our next port of call was the Commercial Hotel at Morpeth. There seems to have been two Commercial Hotels in Morpeth, the first licensed by Moses Murphy in April… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © EAST Maitland’s Victoria Inn, west of Newcastle in NSW, has had many incarnations since its original construction. Its most recent manifestation in 2015 has been a labour of love for James Morgan, its the current owner, to… 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 ›
INNER west Sydney’s diminishing art-deco architecture was the focus of our road trip when Time Gents visited four pubs in and around Marrickville late last month. A relatively short drive from our inner-city base, is the destination we like to… Read More ›
Parramatta Road’s Oldest Pubs A SUNDAY drive along Parramatta Road took us to rediscover some of Sydney’s oldest pubs. The plan was to visit seven pubs between Sydney and Parramatta, with lunch at the Rose and Crown. Come with Time… Read More ›
