THE Court Hotel was a jerry-built corrugated iron pub established in what is now an abandoned gold mining town in Western Australia. Bulong was a bustling settlement located 580kms east of Perth in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. In… Read More ›
The Imperial Hotel on Wellington Street, Perth (WA) was a prominent, multi-storey building first completed in 1898. Located opposite Perth’s central railway station, it was described in 1889 as a “handsome ornament” to the area during the Gold Boom era. The… Read More ›
Built in 1900–1901 by John Crothers for proprietor Henry Edward Laslett, the York Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, is a historic landmark located on Hannan Street. Designed by architect Daniel T. Edmunds in the Federation Anglo-Dutch style, it remains a… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THROUGH wheatbelt country, to the rugged, but beautiful south-west and Margaret River regions of Western Australia, our February 2025 road trip provided an opportunity to visit a selection of fascinating pubs, explore their history, and discover… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © FOR just over 40 years, bushrangers and desperadoes sheltered under the first incarnation of Mahogany Creek inn’s roof. There they gathered, drinking and yarning around its taproom fire place, joining with stockmen, timber-getters, bullockies, and more… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © NOT many pubs could claim a ‘king’ as their ‘yardman’. Broome’s Continental Hotel in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has that distinction. Aboriginal elder, ‘King Mackie’ was the ‘boots’ or ‘roustabout’ at the Continental Hotel… Read More ›
John McManaway was a famed Western Australian publican, who hosted three pubs to the heavy drinking miners of the Murchison goldfields. Known far and wide as ‘Bold McManaway’, or simply ‘Mac’, the Irishman was said to have feared nothing, was always up-for-a-fight –… Read More ›
A NUMBER of disturbances between miners and the authorities in Kalgoorlie centred on the pubs – the diggers unofficial meeting places. One of the first occurred in March 1898 when Western Australian Premier John Forrest visited the goldfields to officially… Read More ›
NOW a popular pub in the Perth inner city suburb of Highgate, the Brisbane Hotel has traded for over 120 years. The pub, located at the corner of Brisbane and Beaufort Streets, was established in 1898. In recent years, the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © A LARGER than life character, Jabez Penn made quite an impression during his 20 year career as a Perth hotelier. The son of an English conservative politician, Jabez Penn hosted two pubs and a wine saloon… Read More ›