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Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick Junction
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 ›
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Ral Ral Hotel became an outhouse
Historic South Australian landmarks The old Ral Ral Hotel, beyond Renmark, on the famous overlanding track from Morgan to Wentworth, a well-known public house in the early day of Murray settlement. The building is now used as an outhouse at… Read More ›
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Naked woman takes a dip in pub’s water trough
A WOMAN turned a few heads within the bar of the Richmond Club Hotel in Richmond, Victoria in 1891 when she plunged completely naked into the outside water trough. Today the horse drinking trough outside the Swan Street pub has… Read More ›
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Loading the Tooheys truck
This newspaper picture, taken at Darling Harbor, Sydney in May 1948, shows workmen loading Toohey’s beer on to a train. Picture: The Sydney Daily Telegraph May 11 1948.
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Min Min Hotel
THE MYSTERIOUS Min Min lights were first recorded near the now-abandoned western Queensland settlement of Min Min early last century. The Min Min light is circular and has fuzzy, moving edges and is usually white, but can be green, yellow,… Read More ›
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Beer is not the best
LITHGOW unionists, who have declared a “beer strike,” will inscribe on a “dishonor roll” the names of men caught drinking beer. This beer strike habit is growing serious. There has been an epidemic of it lately. Pretty soon the breweries… Read More ›
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Strange funerals
From time to time there have been curious happenings in Australia in connection with funerals, and the latest ranks with the most piquant. This is how the story goes; A funeral party that came to bury Jim Carroll, one of… Read More ›
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Boxing champ behind the bar
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 ›
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Civic Hotel’s ‘moving pictures’
High on the wall of the Civic Hotel, Pitt and Goulburn Streets Sydney was a screen about 5 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches with an amplifier where publican Jack Angel regularly showed films to appreciative drinkers in… Read More ›
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Beer drums on trial
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Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart
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Old Hotel Being Demolished
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Hotel Darwin
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Hotel Darwin
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Darwin hotel explosion
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Boxing champ behind the bar
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Court Hotel, Perth & The O’Briens
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Early closing farce
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Adelphi Hotel, Perth
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Money’s worth?
July 28, 2017
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The North Perth Hotel
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School’s in…
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Gordon was no ‘hack’ hotelier
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Melbourne Hotels ›
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August 18, 2019
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They learnt Australian ways
June 30, 2019
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Flinders Street Angel Retires
April 14, 2019
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Pluto arrives in Melbourne
March 11, 2019
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The Pub Counter Lunch
March 10, 2019
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Apollo Inn, Melbourne
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The 1952 Victorian Beer Strike
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In praise of the pub
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Sydney’s Chloe & the Sussex Hotel
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Melbourne inns that have gone
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Albury Hotel, Paddington
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Civic Hotel’s ‘moving pictures’
August 4, 2019
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These barmaids topped the poll
August 1, 2019
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The Sydney swill at six
July 10, 2019
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Old Commodore Hotel, North Sydney
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Molloy’s Bohemian pub: Newcastle Hotel
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Dead uncle found in bar
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Women at the bar
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Adelaide hotels ›
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Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide
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Rebel Irish flag at Adelaide hotel
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Strategic beer break
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Exchange Hotel, Adelaide
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Selborne Hotel, Adelaide
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Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide
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St Leonards Inn, St Leonards
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Early taverns of South Australia
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Imperial Hotel, Adelaide
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Red Lion Hotel, Adelaide
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Hen gets ‘clucky’ on beer
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Publican, Rose Rooney: Sydney’s Diamond Queen
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Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
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Telling the ‘Yanks’ about us
April 12, 2019
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Crown Hotel, Brisbane
December 27, 2018
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Queensland hotel advertisements
December 9, 2018
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Beer taster Bee
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Waterloo Hotel, Fortitude Valley
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Royal George, Fortitude Valley
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Shamrock Hotel, Brisbane
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