Part of the collection of 14,000 beer labels owned by Mr. Ray Pantano, licensee of the Empress of India Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Mr. Pantano has contacts all over the world and hopes to surpass the record 125,000 labels owned by an American collector…. Read More ›
The Gordon Hotel, located at 63 Bentinck Street Portland, was established in 1842 as the Commercial Inn and was renamed the Gordon Hoitel in 1890. The hotel was rebuilt in stages between the 1870s and 1928, when works included the… Read More ›
The auction of confiscated illegal liquor attracted big crowds, including local publicans, in Melbourne during the 1920s. Liquor that was confiscated by the law during raids on ‘sly-grog shops’ were often brought to auction by the Victorian Government to boost… Read More ›
The Royal Oak Hotel is located at the corner of Nicholson and Freeman Streets, Fitzroy North. The Melbourne pub was opened in March 1871 by Emma Phair. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the hotel was owned by Mick… Read More ›
The Dramatic Club Hotel, Melbourne The Irony of Circumstances. On the same day that Mr. G. R. Ireland the well-known actor commenced to play the part of the reformed drunkard in “Ten nights in a bar-room,” he became the licensee… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © WHILE my wife ran a few errands, I waited over a schooner of Resch’s at the White Horse Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Pulling-up a bar stool, I noticed sitting beside my beer, a tip… Read More ›
A THIRSTY budgie became somewhat of a celebrity in 1954 when it featured in newspapers from Newcastle to Melbourne. Joe the five-week-old budgerigar, was said to have been the “drinkers’ friend” and “one of the boys” at its home at… Read More ›
TWO Sydney barmaids — Billie Williams and Gladys Henwood — were not impressed by Melbourne’s champion beer puller, Cyril O’Brien, who boasted he could serve 1000 customers in an hour at the Windsor Hotel. Newspapers across the country reported in… Read More ›
Although there are exceptions, Australian pubs generally lack imagination when it comes to naming. Many pubs have inherited their signs from the ‘Mother Country’, and few have uniquely Australian names. While there are some pubs that have adopted Australian names,… Read More ›
Read Time Gents’ history of the Cecil Inn: Roast beef, crisp brown spuds and a few ‘long-uns’ at the Cecil Inn AFTER leaving Moe [Victoria] by the coach for Walhalla the track is through a mass of scrub country, with… Read More ›