Victoria hotels

Cloudy the pony enjoyed a beer at the bar

By Mick Roberts on May 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

CLOUDY was a pony that made the news with his beer drinking antics in 1953. The 88cm (35 inch) pony, reported the World’s News on March 23, had raised around £800 by appearing at fairs, fetes and parades. Besides his… Read More ›

The flash bars of Melbourne’s Royal Mail Hotel

By Mick Roberts on February 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

The Royal Mail, Bourke and Swanston Streets, Melbourne CHARLES LEECH, Proprietor. THIS famous hotel is a notable landmark of Melbourne, and is one of the most popular houses of call in the city. Under the energetic guidance of the present… Read More ›

Roast beef, crisp brown spuds and a few ‘long-uns’ at the Cecil Inn

By Mick Roberts on February 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

By MICK ROBERTS © IN a secluded, heavily timbered valley in the Victorian Highlands, about 20 km north-east of Morwell, once traded a small timber inn, famous for serving-up to its guests mouth-watering roast beef, crisp brown potatoes, and ‘long-uns’… Read More ›

The untold story of Mrs Jones, Ned Kelly and the Glenrowan Inn

By Mick Roberts on January 19, 2020 • ( 1 )

By MICK ROBERTS © THE Glenrowan Inn where the bushranger Ned Kelly’s ‘last stand’ took place in 1880 is likely Australia’s most infamous pub. While the history of bushranger Ned Kelly is well documented, the story of Glenrowan Inn host,… Read More ›

Evolution of the Australian beer glass

By Mick Roberts on January 10, 2020 • ( 2 )

From pint, to long sleever, to pot and schooner By MICK ROBERTS © THE ‘long sleever’ was an impressive looking beer glass that stood 45cm high and held an Imperial pint, or 20 fluid ounces. In colonial times, when… Read More ›

Publican blames after hours’ beer on Father Christmas

By Mick Roberts on December 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

MELBOURNE, Tuesday – The woman licensee of a Ballarat hotel raided at midnight, told police who found three bottles of beer in the lounge: “They don’t belong to me Father Christmas must have dropped them through the roof”. Ownership of… Read More ›

Opposition publican ‘cut the grass’ on the Blue Duck’s grand opening

By Mick Roberts on December 22, 2019 • ( 1 )

By MICK ROBERTS © A HUGE crowd gathered at Billy O’Connell’s remote pub in the Victorian highlands waiting for its official opening – and free beer. They were to be disappointed. The Melbourne Herald reported on June 15 1937 that… Read More ›

Melbourne hotelier, Jimmy Richardson

By Mick Roberts on November 12, 2019 • ( 5 )

By MICK ROBERTS © A CANNY Scotsman with a reputation for being careful with his money, Jimmy Richardson, was one of Australia’s most successful hoteliers. Jimmy built an empire of Melbourne hotels, before selling them all – with the exception of… Read More ›

Naked woman takes a dip in pub’s water trough

By Mick Roberts on August 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

A WOMAN turned a few heads within the bar of the Richmond Club Hotel in Richmond, Victoria in 1891 when she plunged completely naked into the outside water trough. Today the horse drinking trough outside the Swan Street pub has… Read More ›

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