For more than a hundred years a hotel stood on the site of what is today the Astra Retirement Village at Bondi Beach. The original building was named the Cliff House Hotel and was built around 1880. The Cliff House… Read More ›
Sydney hotels
How Sydney beat a heatwave at Bondi Beach’s Astra Hotel
As Sydney sweltered in yesterday’s heat-wave hotels were popular. This was the scene at 1 pm in the Astra Hotel, Bondi. Average success of thirsty drinkers in the crowded bar was two drinks per hour. – The Sydney Sun Sunday 4 November 1945…. Read More ›
Australian Eleven Hotel, Redfern
By MICK ROBERTS © AUSTRALIAN sportsmen have a long tradition of donning the publican apron. In fact, history is littered with famous sporting publicans, who have taken advantage of their athletic fame to earn them a living behind the bar…. Read More ›
Sydney’s Royal Hotel: Teenage lift operator stabbed guest eight times
The tragic tale of the murder of a publican’s wife By MICK ROBERTS © TWO years after the Royal Hotel in Sydney’s George Street closed for business in 1914, a young man who had committed a horrific murder from within… Read More ›
A favourite with the marines: Sydney barmaid becomes internationally famous
DRINKERS at the Australia Hotel bar are all “boys” to Elfreda Hall, 33-year old barmaid who this week became internationally known. The reason was that 16 US Marine Corps officers (all “ordinary fellas”) in Virginia, who drank at Freda’s bar… Read More ›
Road trip: a few Marrickville pubs
INNER west Sydney’s diminishing art-deco architecture was the focus of our road trip when Time Gents visited four pubs in and around Marrickville late last month. A relatively short drive from our inner-city base, is the destination we like to… Read More ›
This will make your mouth dry…
YOU BEAUT! Tooheys brewery went to the rescue of city hotels today when thirsty shoppers crowded bars. Here is some of the brewery’s stock that employees rushed to hotels. -The Sydney Sun Thursday 24 December 1953
Historic Sydney bar ended up in the Great Western Hotel, Orange
Sydney bar travels 250 kilometres west to Orange By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S a pub in the central west tablelands of NSW that has links to one of Sydney’s most famous early colonial hotels. After its closure in 1950, the… Read More ›
Road trip to Parramatta: A visit to the Horse & Jockey, Keighery’s, Parramatta’s Rose & Crown, and the Royal Oak
Parramatta Road’s Oldest Pubs A SUNDAY drive along Parramatta Road took us to rediscover some of Sydney’s oldest pubs. The plan was to visit seven pubs between Sydney and Parramatta, with lunch at the Rose and Crown. Come with Time… Read More ›
Oatley Hotel begins with a blast
BLASTING WITHOUT PERMISSION. Frank J. Dwyer was fined £2 and 8/- costs for blasting at Oatley without at first having obtained permission. Sergeant Francis stated that defendant was blasting rock to make a cellar for a new hotel. Tiles and… Read More ›