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  • Charcoal Inn, Casino

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    THERE’S a pub at Casino, in the Northern Rivers of NSW, about 30kms from Lismore that has an intriguing sign. The Charcoal Inn looks like a fairly new type of pub, and you would be right in saying so. Like… Read More ›

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  • Covent Gardens Hotel, Haymarket

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    A BURIED FENCE. The old Covent Gardens Hotel, at the corner of Dixon and Hay-streets, Sydney, is being rebuilt. Yesterday the workmen engaged in digging the foundations came across an old three-railed open fence, at a distance of nine feet… Read More ›

  • Wedderburn Hotel, Wedderburn

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    By MICK ROBERTS © THERE was little chance of getting a beer, let alone a room, in Wedderburn’s two pubs when gold fever gripped the sleepy farming township in March 1950. A resident unearthed a 175-ounce nugget of gold in… Read More ›

  • Tabulam Hotel, Tabulam

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    JIM Jordan was known as “The Prince of Hotelkeepers”. He had the Tabulam Hotel, in the far north-east of NSW, between Tenterfield and Casino, on the Clarence River from 1909 until his death in 1925. Jim’s reputation for giving free accommodation… Read More ›

  • Victoria Inn, East Maitland

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    By MICK ROBERTS © THE Victoria Inn, sometimes known as the Queen Victoria, traded as a pub for just over 25 years at East Maitland, before its taps ran dry in 1863. Although the historic pub reopened as the Old… Read More ›

  • Station Hotel, Kurri Kurri

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    IN a confusing administrative error, two pubs in the fledging colliery town of Kurri Kurri NSW officially were known by the same name for a short time in 1904. Robert Robertson, an experience hotelier, was 53 when he applied for… Read More ›

  • Charles Hotel, Fairy Meadow

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    THE misfortunes of a landmark pub in a town on the central-western plains of NSW enabled the Charles Hotel at Fairy Meadow to open for business on September 15 1955. The Charles was built and established by the Waterhouse family, well-known… Read More ›

  • Kurri Kurri Hotel, Kurri Kurri

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    ONWARD we go, on our Upper Hunter road trip, this time to the picture postcard pub, so familiar to those who love the architecture of Australian hotels. The Kurri Kurri Hotel is majestic in everyway. A beautiful example of Australian… Read More ›

  • Chelmsford Hotel, Kurri Kurri.

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      ON a road trip to the upper Hunter, we stopped at the bandaged Chelmsford Hotel at Kurri Kurri. The poor old lady was undergoing a bit of a facelift, and she wasn’t in the best state to be photographed…. Read More ›

  • Criterion Hotel, Weston

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    The Criterion was built in 1903 by James Jones, an experienced hotelier who had run a number of hotels in Newcastle and Sydney prior to setting his sights on Kurri Kurri to establish business. Jim was licensee of the Terminus and… Read More ›