These three barmaids topped the poll in the Popular Barmaid contest held in aid of the Parents and Citizens’ Federation funds, to provide comforts in schools. The winner was Miss Laurie Hawe (top left), of the Oceanic Hotel, Coogee. Second… Read More ›
REVIEW: Sitting on the busy intersection of inner-west Sydney’s Stanmore and Enmore Roads is a survivor, a business that has stood the test of time, trading through evolving drinking habits and social values, offering the folk of Enmore, Marrickville and… Read More ›
ALMOST A LOST ART – drinkers lining the bar at the Orient Hotel, George-street North (The Rocks), today, where the beer “came on” at 11.20am. There was little talk. – The Sun (Sydney, NSW ) Wednesday 10 April 1946.
By MICK ROBERTS © THE remaining historic inner-city pubs of Sydney hold countless sad and tragic secrets. After the Great War many soldiers returned to Australia’s shores dealing with personal psychological traumas. This is the likely explanation behind the terrible… Read More ›
The Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw, today officially visited the inside and outside of an hotel. With inspector Fergusson he examined proposed alterations, including addition of a women’s parlor, to the Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst. The police are objecting to the… Read More ›
THE Sydney Morning Herald’s Column 8, penned by “Granny”, often featured interesting and sometimes amusing snippets of pub information during the 1940s and 50s… Here is a selection… CAN’T WIN. They’re telling this tale around the city of a fellow’s… Read More ›
REVIEW: The Carrington Hotel sits in what was once one of Sydney’s toughest suburbs. She was a rough old pub in her day, frequented by shady characters, SP bookies, gun carrying drinkers, and customers who generally knew how to use… Read More ›
A WOMAN was fined £2 in Central Court for having bitten a publican. Sidney Howard, licensee of the Shakespeare Hotel, Devonshire Street, Sydney, said Nancy Sharpe, 25, of Vaucluse, called at his hotel, abused him smashed a plateglass door with… Read More ›