…An old seafarer’s inn By MICK ROBERTS © CURRENTLY used as student accommodation, the former Cleopatra Hotel in the port city of Fremantle has a history stretching back almost to Western Australia’s foundations. The pub was founded in 1836, when… Read More ›
WHERE pubs were found, drinkers could also find a resident SP bookie. At one SP betting stand in the Perth metropolitan area, not 50 yards from a main arterial road, the principal in this 1953 newspaper picture was a woman…. Read More ›
By Kirwan Ward OVER the bar in the Brunswick Junction hotel [WA] the radio was blaring forth tidings from Kalgoorlie. The field for the Fourth Division of the Lamington Plate was at the barrier behaving like a gaggle of temperamental… Read More ›
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOUR NEVER HAD A DRINK Former fight champion Frank Kirwan (pictured), for 29 years head barman at the Esplanade Hotel’s front bar, has never had a drink of beer in his life. Yet, today, with all the enthusiasm… Read More ›
Bartholomew Cornelius O’Brien managed the Court Hotel at the corner of Beaufort and James streets Perth for over 35 years, first taking the reins in 1903. After his death in 1938, his sons took control, resulting in the O’Brien family… Read More ›
Re-union of West Australians A very enjoyable smoke social was held recently at the Criterion Hotel, Kalgoorlie, the occasion being a reunion of West Australians and Perth residents residing on the goldfields. Mr. E. McGinn occupied the chair. During the… Read More ›
SCENE OF HECTIC NORSEMAN BEER BATTLE THE HOTEL AT NORSEMAN (WA), where after the conclusion of the ‘Beer Strike’ this week, there was a free fight. Pots were hurled about, beer was seized and eventually the publican had to turn… Read More ›
WHEELBARROW BUG BITES PINGELLY FOR A £10 SIDE WAGER, Bert Wilson, a Pingelly blacksmith (WA), pushed Ben Jackson (sitter) in a barrow from Brookton to Pingelly (12½ miles) in 5 hours, 14 minutes. The wager was that the distance would… Read More ›
Mrs Clara Paton recalled in the Western Mail (Perth) on October 30 1952: NIAGARA’S RISE “IN February, 1895, Dorrie Doolette and Charley Northmore arrived at the 90-mile and asked my husband, Arthur Williams, the licensee of the 90-Mile Hotel, if… Read More ›
