Sydney hotels
Magistrate visits the Burdekin
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 ›
Snippets from Sydney’s drinking past
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 ›
The Carrington Hotel, Surry Hills
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 ›
Biting the hand that feeds you
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 ›
Yo, Ho, Ho at the Chamberlain
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 ›
Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
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 ›