The bar-room shook, drinkers swayed, and glasses flew everywhere when a 36-gallon keg of beer exploded in the cellar of the Federal Hotel at 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. The cellar is directly under the bar-room and the explosion caused the whole… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © COINCIDENTALLY two publicans of one of South Australia’s oldest trading pubs had their lives cut short as a result of similar tragic accidents. The publicans of the Emu Hotel at Morphet Vale both met their ends… Read More ›
When Mr. Bob Lowick, of Centennial Park, goes into a hotel bar for a drink, his wife goes with him. Yesterday 50 men were drinking in the front bar of a North Terrace hotel when, at the height of the… Read More ›
A PUB in the historic port town of Goolwa, at the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia, has strong links with the shipwrecked Mozambique. The Goolwa Hotel features the original figurehead of the ship, which went down with… Read More ›
WITH an axe someone last night cut half-way through a wooden verandah post at the Glynde Hotel, Payneham road, Hectorville (SA). The post is about five inches by five inches and the cut was made about three feet from the ground. The licensee,… Read More ›
This magnificent eucalypt tree in the Mount Barker District of South Australia was doomed to destruction. The Adelaide Observe newspaper reported on January 11 1919 that the tree had been sold to be cut up into staves for beer barrels…. Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © WHILE my wife ran a few errands, I waited over a schooner of Resch’s at the White Horse Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Pulling-up a bar stool, I noticed sitting beside my beer, a tip… Read More ›
KANGAROO SKIN MEASURES NEARLY NINE FEET. Hanging on the wall in the public bar of the Flinders Hotel is an enormous kangaroo skin, the size of which is indeed a very rare sight. The skin measures 8 feet 9 inches from the head to the… Read More ›
For Time Gents’ history of the Globe Hotel and its publicans see: The pub on the edge of the Nullarbor: The Globe Hotel, Fowlers Bay Fowlers Bay and jetty 1905. The building on the left in the above photograph is… Read More ›