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The pub named after a lone gum on a clay pan: The One Tree Hotel
Located between Hay and Booligal on Cobb Highway in NSW is the famous and historic One Tree Hotel. The hotel was built in 1862 by Alexander Finch. Originally known as Finch Inn, it was renamed the One Tree Hotel later… Read More ›
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Spanish influenza pandemic closed Sydney’s pubs for almost a month in 1919
BETWEEN January and September 1919, pneumonic influenza, commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, killed 6,387 people in New South Wales, infecting as many as 290,000 in Metropolitan Sydney alone. The pandemic threw the people and Government of the State… Read More ›
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Road trip: Rydal Pub host tells the ‘chilling’ tale of his shortened bar
Coming soon: Time Gents’ next road trip takes us to the Lithgow region of NSW, where we visit three beaut bush pubs – The O’Connell Hotel, O’Connell, Tarana Hotel, Tarana, and the Alexander Hotel, Rydal. We chat with two of… Read More ›
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Zandra the pub nude made Chloe look like ‘an elderly spinster in a red flannel negligee’
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 ›
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And then there was one… The last delivery horse at SA Brewery
‘WHISKY’, a grey, is, the only horse left at the SA Brewing Company, after horses have pulled the company’s beer delivery wagons in Adelaide for more than 60 years. They have been replaced by motor trucks. The last pair of… Read More ›
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A minor hold-up in Albury’s liquor trade!
There was a tempting sight for the thirsty when, reported the Border Morning Mail on August 6 1938, a Carlton Brewery lorry was bogged for several hours while delivering beer in Dean Street, Albury.
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The flash bars of Melbourne’s Royal Mail Hotel
The Royal Mail, Bourke and Swanston Streets, Melbourne CHARLES LEECH, Proprietor. THIS famous hotel is a notable landmark of Melbourne, and is one of the most popular houses of call in the city. Under the energetic guidance of the present… Read More ›
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Bert the navvy could out-swear a bullocky
NAVVY WHO OUTSWORE BULLOCKIES CLEARED HOTEL IN FIVE MINUTES CONST. AMAZED NEWCASTLE. Monday. HERBERT GAMBLE, laborer, walked into the public bar of the Great Northern Hotel on Saturday afternoon. Within five minutes it was empty. In the words of Constable… Read More ›
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Plaza Hotel, Sydney had the first fully automated glass washing machine in NSW
THE first automated glass-washing machine in New South Wales, and the second in Australia, was installed in the bar of the Plaza Hotel, above Wynyard Railway Station, George Street, Sydney in 1946. When Plaza Hotel manager, Alphonse Parer switched on… Read More ›
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Hobart hotels ›
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Beer drums on trial
August 26, 2019
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The pubs and brothels of Hobart’s Watchorn Street
June 17, 2019
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Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart
August 17, 2017
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Pugnacious publican
February 25, 2017
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Early pubs of Hobart: The romance of Tasmania’s hostelries
June 11, 2016
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Publican painter
May 4, 2015
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Old Hotel Being Demolished
January 1, 2015
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The Ship Inn, Hobart, Tasmania
November 15, 2014
Darwin hotels ›
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Hotel Darwin
August 17, 2017
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Hotel Darwin
March 15, 2017
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Darwin beer supply white-anted
March 9, 2017
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The Vic survived three cyclones…
December 24, 2016
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Darwin hotel explosion
October 19, 2016
Perth Hotels ›
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Three Western Australian publicans from the past
March 28, 2020
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Zandra the pub nude made Chloe look like ‘an elderly spinster in a red flannel negligee’
March 9, 2020
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Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill
January 14, 2020
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The Battle for Beer
December 18, 2019
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Perth’s SP bookies were not only blokes
August 31, 2019
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Boxing champ behind the bar
August 4, 2019
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Court Hotel, Perth & The O’Briens
May 10, 2019
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Shenton Park Hotel
April 21, 2018
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Early closing farce
April 9, 2018
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Adelphi Hotel, Perth
February 13, 2018
Melbourne Hotels ›
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The flash bars of Melbourne’s Royal Mail Hotel
February 29, 2020
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Melbourne hotelier, Jimmy Richardson
November 12, 2019
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Naked woman takes a dip in pub’s water trough
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
March 10, 2019
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The 1952 Victorian Beer Strike
February 6, 2019
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In praise of the pub
December 27, 2018
Sydney hotels ›
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Carlton & United Breweries rolling out 2,000 barrels of free beer to help pubs through pandemic
May 28, 2020
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Assembly Hotel, Sydney: Proud beauty scorns the demon rum
March 25, 2020
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Spanish influenza pandemic closed Sydney’s pubs for almost a month in 1919
March 16, 2020
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Plaza Hotel, Sydney had the first fully automated glass washing machine in NSW
February 26, 2020
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Singing publican drops dead on stage
February 14, 2020
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Evolution of the Australian beer glass
January 10, 2020
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When talented pets were pub attractions
December 4, 2019
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Dind’s Hotel, Milson’s Point
November 6, 2019
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Albury Hotel, Paddington
August 25, 2019
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Long drink ends sailor’s long thirst
August 25, 2019
Adelaide hotels ›
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Adelaide’s last barmaid: When women were barred from behind the bar
December 31, 2019
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Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide
June 5, 2019
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Rebel Irish flag at Adelaide hotel
March 14, 2019
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Strategic beer break
October 6, 2018
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Exchange Hotel, Adelaide
August 7, 2018
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Selborne Hotel, Adelaide
November 9, 2017
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Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide
October 8, 2017
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St Leonards Inn, St Leonards
August 29, 2017
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Early taverns of South Australia
August 21, 2017
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Imperial Hotel, Adelaide
July 10, 2017
Brisbane hotels ›
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Drinkers join the Salvos in Christmas carols outside South Brisbane pub
December 24, 2019
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The Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
November 19, 2019
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Hen gets ‘clucky’ on beer
July 23, 2019
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Publican, Rose Rooney: Sydney’s Diamond Queen
June 4, 2019
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Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
April 15, 2019
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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
April 4, 2018
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Waterloo Hotel, Fortitude Valley
December 10, 2017