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 ›
SYDNEY – A 10-gallon keg of overproof rum was stolen from the cellar of the Chamberlain Hotel, Pitt Street, yesterday afternoon. Thieves took advantage of the crowded bar. and are said to have rolled the barrel through the public bar of the… Read More ›
REVIEW: She’s not your prettiest pub, but she’s definitely one of Sydney’s friendliest. The Friend in Hand, in the quiet back streets of Glebe, is also unique in that it retains the quaint name it was given over 150 years… Read More ›
THE Royal Hotel at the corner of Abercrombie and Codrington Streets, Darlington, like many Sydney pubs, struggled to survive through the war years. Beer rationing, and even, as the following story reveals, restrictions on the availability of bed linen made… Read More ›
REVIEW: We paid a visit to Erskinville’s Swanson Hotel over the weekend for lunch, and were pleasantly surprised. The former Kurrajong Hotel, bought by the Balmain Pub Group, was transformed into a semi-upmarket watering hole, with a British West… Read More ›
SYDNEY’s first beer garden was established facing York Street outside Petty’s Hotel at the corner of Jamieson and Clarence Streets late in 1938. While beer gardens are now common in the yards of Sydney pubs, they were difficult to find… Read More ›
NSW President of ULVA (Mr. Connolly) says Australia’s climate is not suitable for beer gardens. – The Sun (Sydney, NSW ) Wednesday 30 January 1946.
REVIEW: There’s something special about a working class, traditional style Australian pub – especially in Sydney. Sadly though, they’re vanishing as quickly as the characters who frequent them. Today’s weekend pub lunch took us to the Dunkirk Hotel, or ‘The… Read More ›
REVIEW: Woolloomooloo’s Tilbury Hotel was the destination for this weekend’s pub lunch; a pub of contradiction, which I’ll explain a little later… Although its working class, waterside worker days have been long assigned to the pages of history, the modernised Tilbury… Read More ›