Two very different publicans By Mick Roberts © THEY say that Braidwood, on the NSW Southern Highlands is a diverse community, a place where the city meets the bush, where artists mingle with farmers, where mechanics and shearers share a… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE were lessons to be learnt from our road trip to the central tablelands of NSW earlier this month. And one of those lesson? Bush pubs are as diverse as the publicans behind their bars…. Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THE four Balmain pubs visited on our last road trip started their trading life as working class, blue collar establishments. They all opened over a century ago, frequented by wharfies, factory workers and customers known for… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S a little country town in the NSW coalfields north-west of Lithgow that I reckon punches well above its weight. While many towns and villages struggle to survive in the mining settlements west of the Great… 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 © ESTABLISHED on the back of mining and the thirsts it created, there’s a pub about 20kms from Orange, in central west NSW that survives from those heady days when gold raised the hopes of many, but… 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 ›
