Picture: The Sydney Sunday Herald, July 24 1949 By MICK ROBERTS © IN a small cemetery in Victoria’s highlands, legend has it that publican John Treffry was buried with his pub’s signboard as his ‘headstone’. John Treffry hosted the Running… Read More ›
WELLINGTON, November 13. An amusing partial strike of barmaids occurred in Nelson [Victoria] hotels yesterday, owing to a manifesto issued by three local brewers promising to prohibit the employment of barmaids in their tied houses as a condition of future leases. The girls were indignant, and… Read More ›
PUBS often featured in the pages of newspapers, revealing a fascinating glimpse into the workings and culture of Australian communities and in particular working class men and women. Here are a selection: FOR 44 years she has served beer. In… Read More ›
“Jimmy” Richardson, the biggest figure in Australia’s hotel trade, died yesterday, aged 87. True to his life long principles of hard workand frugality, he worked at his accounts and signing of cheques until the eve of his death. He died in his bed at the Hotel Alexander at 10am,after… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S a pub in Melbourne’s CBD that’s home to arguably Australia’s most famous ‘nude’. Established in 1861, Young & Jackson is one of Australia’s most recognisable hotels. It’s also home to ‘Chloe’. The pub, named after two… Read More ›
67 years “at the bar” kept her youthful. By CYNTHIA STRACHAN “THEY say I’m a gay old spark – and I suppose they’re not far wrong,” Mornington’s 80-year-old hotel proprietor, Miss Edith Ruth Clifton, said with a mischievous chuckle on the eve of he retirement after… Read More ›
OFTEN A thankless job, involving mundane tasks, yardmen were – and still are in many bush and regional pubs – an indispensable cog in the works of a successfully operating hotel. Usually knock-about blokes employed to do odd-jobs around the… Read More ›
A new clause has been inserted in the Licensing Bill providing for registration of barmaids, with a view to their being gradually eliminated. —News item. Alas! a dismal world is this! The Wowsers run the show; They’ve shut the pubs at… Read More ›
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 the beer was also denied by 14 other people… Read More ›
Shepparton, Tuesday. Fred Banjo Price, 60, hotel useful, tried to lassoo a turkey in the yard of the Shepparton Hotel. He missed and fell. Price was admitted to Mooroopna Hospital with a broken thigh. The turkey is still roaming free. – The Argus (Melbourne) Wednesday 31… Read More ›