ALMOST A RIOT. About 10 o’clock on Saturday night Constable McDaniel saw a woman ejected from a Goulburn-street hotel (Haymarket) by two barmaids. He arrested her, and, at first she was going easily enough, but a man called out to… Read More ›
Sydney hotels
Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in… Read More ›
Four in Hand Hotel, Paddington
BOUND BODY OF PENSIONER IN HOTEL SYDNEY, Monday – An 85 years old pensioner, Herbert Sidney Butler, was found dead today in his ransacked bed room in the Four-In-Hand Hotel, Paddington. He is believed to have, been attacked by burglars. He… Read More ›
Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta
LIKE GOOD WINE. THE GLAD HAND. Messrs, A. G. Papworth and T. Lockett extend mutual congratulations on the landing of a double at Menangle last week. —The Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) Thursday 28 March 1929 WOOLPACK’S NEW VENTURE The new… Read More ›
Emu Hotel, Parramatta
WITH HIS THROAT CUT. Sydney, Tuesday. An old age pensioner named James Lawson was found today in a stable at the Emu Hotel, Parramatta, with his throat cut. He had been seeking admission to the asylum. He is in a critical… Read More ›
Man falls 18 metres to his death at Sydney’s Durban Club Hotel
Tragedy struck the long-gone Durban Club Hotel in 1950 when a man fell 18 metres to his death from a window of the inner-city Sydney pub. Located on the south-west corner of Hunter and Elizabeth Streets, the Durban Hotel was… Read More ›
Wentworth Hotel, Flemington
50 IN BAR WHEN OLD BUILDING CRASHED WITH a terrific crash, tons of bricks, woodwork, and iron collapsed at the old Wentworth Hotel, Parramatta-road, Flemington, shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday. Portion of the debris shattered the back wall of the… Read More ›
Burial service for parrot
Strange But True One of the strangest graves in the ancient Western Road cemetery at Parramatta (NSW) is that of a parrot. For twenty years the bird entertained travellers at one of the hotels, and the wife of the hotelkeeper become… Read More ›
Flee fire in hotel
CUSTOMERS with drinks in their hands rushed out of the bar of the Bald Face Stag Hotel, Petersham, when it caught fire yesterday. The blaze began in the rear bar of the hotel when some tins of paint caught fire. Within… Read More ›
Stepney Hotel, Alexandria
By MICK ROBERTS © JUST why Italian immigrant and Alexandria publican, Benjamin Lafiura prematurely ended his life in such an agonising method will probably never be known. Like the small two storey corner pub where he ended his 48… Read More ›