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 ›
Reviews
Road Trip: Museum Hotel, West Wallsend
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 ›
Road Trip: Holmesville Hotel, Holmesville
TO think that the Holmesville Hotel was almost lost as a house of hospitality! Time Gents visited the West Wallsend district in NSW over the weekend, dropping into a few of the historic pubs, on what was rainy, miserable Queens… Read More ›
Road Trip: The lost pubs of West Wallsend
FOR a little mining town that once had an unquenchable thirst, there’s little wonder six pubs traded at the same time early last century. Today, sadly just one pub remains in West Wallsend. That insatiable thirst seems to have been… Read More ›
Road Trip: Killingworth Hotel, Killingworth
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN a group of men went to the Killingworth Hotel, a few days before Christmas 1952, asking for bottles of beer, the bar had been closed for an hour and half. It was way past… Read More ›
Zetland Hotel, Zetland
A working Class Pub By MICK ROBERTS © WALKING into the public bar of the Zetland Hotel, in the southern suburbs of Sydney, it’s not difficult to see that this is a working class pub. It’s a fascinating tiled, corner… Read More ›
Parkview Hotel, Alexandria
From bloodhouse to gentrified watering hole By MICK ROBERTS © REVIEW: Who would have thought that Alexandria’s Parkview Hotel was once one of Sydney’s toughest pubs, the haunt of hard drinking men, frequented by members of the notorious razor gangs that… Read More ›
The Warren View Hotel, Enmore
REVIEW: Sitting on the busy intersection of inner-west Sydney’s Stanmore and Enmore Roads is a survivor, a business that has stood the test of time, trading through evolving drinking habits and social values, offering the folk of Enmore, Marrickville and… Read More ›
Road trip: Macquarie Arms, Windsor and the ongoing debate over Australia’s oldest pub
FINDING a pub in Australia that is more than 200 years old is a difficult task. In fact there are just two pubs that I know of that can lay claim to having an establishment date going back two centuries… Read More ›
First man to discover gold in Victoria hosted Melbourne’s oldest pub, The Duke
By MICK ROBERT © WHILE in Melbourne for the tennis, an old mate of mine, Pat Adams supplied a few images and a review of the city’s oldest pub, the Duke of Wellington. Arguably, the most famous of the long-line… Read More ›