THE beautiful Federation style Ariah Park Hotel was established in 1914, and features much of its original grandeur, like stained glass windows, and wall tiles and grand staircases.Ariah Park is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales,… Read More ›
SOLD OUT… SOLD OUT… SOLD OUT… SOLD OUT… SOLD OUT… -THE LAST OF THE REMAINING STOCK WITH SLIGHTLY MARKED FRONT COVERS- – WITH A REDUCED PRICE OF $20 – HAVE SOLD OUT. THE LOCAL, A History of Hotels and the… Read More ›
THE Occidental Hotel, after more than 60 years as a licensed house in Ballina, has now been closed, and the license surrendered. On the water front, the Occidental in early days was the gathering place of seamen of the… Read More ›
FOR AN UPDATED AND MORE DETAILED VERSION OF THIS STORY, VISIT: Outback Sands Reclaim Yanco Glen Hotel IN January 1987, with a group of friends travelling outback NSW, we stopped at a memorable little galvanised iron pub, with the tiniest… Read More ›
WHAT’S ANZAC Day without two-up? Two-up was played extensively during World War I by Australian diggers, who would flip coins as a way of relieving boredom. The exact origins of the gambling game are murky, but two-up is likely to… Read More ›
DURING the latter part of the 1940s, and early 1950s a popular article appeared on the front page of the Brisbane Telegraph by the name of “Old Bill’s Column”. In nearly every issue there was a reference to a pub… Read More ›
Accompanying photograph represents the new premises erected by C. D’Arcy and Co. upon the site of their old store [George Street, Sydney] for the purpose of continuing their business as wine and spirit merchants and importers. The expansion of trade… Read More ›
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2015. If it were a… Read More ›
FORTY years ago this week, Adelaide stopped registering barmaids. Only one is still on the job in the city – Miss Lily Dear, of the Orient Hotel, Rundle Street. No barmaids were registered after March 31, 1909. A licensee’s wife… Read More ›
AFTER taking a dip at Queanbeyan (NSW) next time, consider also visiting a local pub to pay homage to the publicans who helped build the popular swimming pool. A scooter race especially for publicans, over a half-mile, followed the annual… Read More ›