By MICK ROBERTS © NOT many countries can claim to have a ‘pub dump’ – made-up of rum, whisky, gin, brandy and beer bottles – with a government heritage listing. Australia can. At Innamincka, a small settlement 821km north-east of… Read More ›
South Australia Hotels
Missing sign mystery: Hotel Victor, Victor Harbour
The missing sign mystery WHAT ever happened to the large Hotel Victor sign that was sold for just $5 at auction in February 1990? Christina Nixon of Allenby Gardens bought the sign off the pub at Victor Harbour, South Australia,… Read More ›
Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide
By MICK ROBERTS © THE bloodied body of 29-year-old George Norton, found at the rear steps of the Southern Cross Hotel in Adelaide one Summer night in 1954 immediately sparked the suspicion of authorities. Police at first suspected foul play, but… Read More ›
Constable’s beer was kept cool in the pub’s horse watering trough
Keeping the constable’s beer cool THE transfer recently of a senior constable, to a northern Victorian town calls to mind an amusing incident that occurred years ago when the senior, before his promotion, was a constable on street duty in… Read More ›
St Leonards Inn: A South Australian pub hosted by a family for almost a century
AFTER an unbroken record of close to 90 years the licence of the St Leonards Inn, in the South Australian bayside town of Glenelg, finally left the McDonald family on September 11 1933. The pub had been handed down among… Read More ›
Early taverns of South Australia
THE historic South Australian Hotel will soon undergo changes which will convert the old-world Adelaide landmark into one of the most modern style hotels, modelled on London and Continental lines. The management changed hands recently, and one of the… Read More ›
Barmen strike forces Adelaide’s Imperial Hotel publican behind his bar
As a result of the decision of Adelaide barmen to cease work, following on the 8/ a week reduction, members of the families of many licensees took their places behind the bar on Monday. Max Flannagan of the Imperial Hotel hard at work. – Observer… Read More ›
Red Lion Hotel, Adelaide, and its missing 40 feet long saloon bar
SOMEBODY HAD A USE FOR IT! As astonished as everyone else, Mr. Bill Holmes recently found himself the owner of the 40ft.-long saloon bar of Adelaide’s historic Red Lion Hotel. THE bar was among items on the auctioneer’s list when… Read More ›
Gresham Hotel, Adelaide
HIS WOODEN LEG There were peculiar circumstance attached to a charge of begging at the Port Adelaide Police Court on Saturday. Timothy Byrnes a miner, of Adelaide, was charged, on the information of Inspector J. E. Noblet, with halving gone… Read More ›
Tiger Hotel Tantanoola
The two Tantanoola tigers IN 1884 near Tantanoola in South Australia’s south east a Bengal tiger supposedly escaped from a travelling circus. A search was mounted, but the tiger was never found. The South Australian Register reported on Tuesday 2… Read More ›