Historic South Australian landmarks The old Ral Ral Hotel, beyond Renmark, on the famous overlanding track from Morgan to Wentworth, a well-known public house in the early day of Murray settlement. The building is now used as an outhouse at… Read More ›
Federal Hotel, Petersburg, South Australia The above spacious and commodious hotel, which is situated on the western side of Dandaloo-street, facing the railway station, is a substantial building of brick It contains 55 rooms, with spacious vestibules and corridors. The ground floor… Read More ›
The Commercial Hotel is the oldest surviving licensed pub in Port Adelaide, South Australia. The Commercial Inn was established in 1841, but gutted by fire in 1857. Rebuilt as the Commercial Hotel in 1869, the pub continues to trade at… Read More ›
A genuine Sinn Fein (Irish rebel) flag, over 50 years old, flew outside the Southern Cross Hotel in King William street yesterday in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. The manager of the Southern Cross (Mr. M. C. Flannagan) said the… Read More ›
World famous musician, Percy Grainger (B.1882 – D.1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist, who died in the United States of America. In the course of a long and innovative career, he played a prominent role in the revival of… Read More ›
Young Kangaroo Likes Her Drop Of Beer JOEY, an 18-month-old blue kangaroo doe owned by Mr. W. J. Parsons, manager of the Largs Pier Hotel, Largs Bay, (South Australia), joins her owner in a glass of beer every day-but no… Read More ›
The annual AIF tourney was played at Kooyonga Golf Club, in Adelaide’s west during the 1950s. Players set out fortified by a rum and milk and during the round refreshed themselves from a keg of beer set up in a… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN the Exchange Hotel was demolished in February 1960, it ended more than 120 years of Adelaide’s history. In fact, it destroyed the city’s oldest pub. There had been a hotel on the north-east corner of… Read More ›
SITTING at the foot of Brighton’s famous jetty, the Esplanade Hotel was originally a grand two storey building with a curved front, a dome and iron lace decorated balconies. Originally built as a hotel in the coastal suburb of Adelaide,… Read More ›
A MISBEHAVED MOTOR RUNS INTO HOTEL BAR. ADELAIDE. Tuesday. The unexplained vagaries of a motor car caused some excitement in Pirie-street today. After capsizing a buggy, it swung across the road, knocked down a cyclist, missed a row of verandah posts by fractions of… Read More ›