THE publican of the Shenton Park Hotel came to a nasty demise in 1928, after accidentally swallowing poison. The hotel was built in 1907 on the corner of Nicholson and Derby Roads, Shenton Park, now a suburb of Perth, Western… Read More ›
Western Australia hotels
Early closing farce
Plea of ‘No Beer’ Although State licensing laws prescribe 9am to 9pm for hotel trading, six hotels in Perth‘s city block closed well before 9 o’clock on Saturday night. Reason given in every case was ‘no beer.’ Because of complaints… Read More ›
Court Hotel, Bulong
THIS grainy old image from a 1897 newspaper is the Court Hotel, which was 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… Read More ›
Adelphi Hotel, Perth
NO, this is not an early photo of a drag-show in one of Sydney’s Oxford Street pubs. Although you could be forgiven if you thought it was…. In fact, this great photo was headed, “Masculine Manneqins”, in the Daily News… Read More ›
The Pubs of Menzies
WHITE HOUSE HOTEL. The White House Hotel in Menzies was built by Mr F. Devas in 1895, and he conducted it for a short period. Mr Devas contracted a severe attack of typhoid, and to the extreme regret of his… Read More ›
Oraya Palace Hotel, Sandstone
THE THIRSTY GOLDFIELDS: The Oroya Palace Hotel at Sandstone in 1912. The proprietor, John McManaway, was an old Murchison identity. He is shown in the photograph standing on the curbing. – Western Mail (Perth WA) Thursday 17 June 1937.
Hannans’ Brewery, Kalgoorlie
The well-known Hannans’ Brewery has always had a reputation for producing a brew of undoubted quality, and ample evidence of the appreciation of the public is afforded in the amount of beer which is consumed daily. A visit to the… Read More ›
The North Perth Hotel
Christmas Beer Lost! Fifteen dozen of beer were smashed beyond all recovery in the backyard of the North Perth Hotel today, but an S.O.S. soon made good the loss in stock. A malevolent ‘dry’ well did the damage. The accident… Read More ›
Ye Olde Narrogin Inn, Armadale
PERTH, Tuesday: A hotel useful reached for a switch to start an electric pump in a flooded cellar today and fell dead. He was Sydney George McGrath, 42, of Ye Olde Narrogin Inn, Armadale (WA). Licensee William Gaynor told police he… Read More ›
Federal Hotel, Fremantle
The Federal’s violent past revealed FREMANTLE’S Federal Hotel was the scene of a gruesome double murder in 1927, when Lillian Martin and her three-year-old son Daniel were found dead in an upstairs bedroom of the building. The Federal Hotel was… Read More ›