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Policeman shot dead in bar of Perth’s Brisbane Hotel

By Mick Roberts on August 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Perth publican ‘Old Penn’ was a colourful character

By Mick Roberts on June 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Three Western Australian publicans from the past

By Mick Roberts on March 28, 2020 • ( 1 )

Bob Connell Burlington Hotel, Bunbury Mine host of the remodelled Burlington Hotel, in Victoria-street, Bunbury, Bob has proved one of the most effective workers in the interests of the town and district. No man is better versed in the potentialities and the… Read More ›

Zandra the pub nude made Chloe look like ‘an elderly spinster in a red flannel negligee’

By Mick Roberts on March 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

EVERYONE knows Chloe the famous ‘goil – in – oils’ at Young and Jackson’s Melbourne bar. Now in Perth (a short priced city in any pulchritude contest) she’s got a rival. And I mean rival. She’s Zandra, a finely-executed nude… Read More ›

Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill

By Mick Roberts on January 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

MEET Jimmy ‘Tich’ McCann (pictured). Jimmy was a well-known newspaper seller and ‘bootblack’ on the streets of Perth, Western Australia, during the 1930s. The ‘old fella’ loved his beer – especially upside down. You see, Jimmy claimed he could make… Read More ›

Evolution of the Australian beer glass

By Mick Roberts on January 10, 2020 • ( 2 )

From pint, to long sleever, to pot and schooner By MICK ROBERTS © THE ‘long sleever’ was an impressive looking beer glass that stood 45cm high and held an Imperial pint, or 20 fluid ounces. In colonial times, when… Read More ›

Ready for the Christmas rush

By Mick Roberts on December 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

The Battle for Beer

By Mick Roberts on December 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

A Picture story: Back from long war service to the old home city that had nine to nine beer when he last knew it, a post-war John Citizen finds things puzzling, tough. He reads that despite ample malt, hops, labour… Read More ›

Fremantle’s Cleopatra Hotel

By Mick Roberts on November 18, 2019 • ( 3 )

…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 ›

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