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Metropolitan Hotel, Sydney
The original Metropolitan Hotel, at the corner of George and Bridge streets Sydney, was demolished in 1910 and replaced with the current heritage listed structure. The site of the Metropolitan has been occupied by a hotel since the 1830s. In… Read More ›
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Draught beer off in Canberra
SUPPLIES of draught beer have “dried up” in four Canberra-hotels and canned and bottled beer supplies are dwindling. Hotel Kingston barmaid Marg Kean (pictured) is shown pouring beer from a can for a customer yesterday. The only other man in… Read More ›
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At 104, Willie Jones met a challenger
Willie Jones, 104 to-day, and for many years undisputed claimant to the title of oldest inhabitant at the Lidcombe State Home [NSW], now has a challenger. A new arrival, Bill Campbell, who offered Willie birthday greetings, claimed he was 107…. Read More ›
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Just a taste for 15 thirsty miners
480 GALLONS OF BEER IN 12 DAYS WOLLONGONG, Monday: The 15 Corrimal miners who are trying to establish a beer-drinking record have drunk 480 gallons of beer and 360 bottles of lemonade and ginger beer in 12 days. They are members of the… Read More ›
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Bringing out the corpse
UNDERTAKERS do not always take their pleasures sadly, and some of the best parties have been thrown in the workshop of one establishment where wooden overcoats are tailored to measure. One night the drinks ran low, and as it was… Read More ›
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Strong Man Inn, Parramatta
Breasting the bar earns Margaret time in the watch house MARGARET Carey, after enjoying a couple of rums at the Strong Man Inn, Parramatta in September 1828, was ordered to spend time in the watch house “until sober” after souveniring… Read More ›
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Strange funerals
PUBLICAN BURIED WITH THE BAR KEY 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… Read More ›
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Belmore Hotel, Circular Quay Sydney
A Snake in the bar A COUPLE of blokes who enjoyed a morning tipple at their ‘early opener’ down by Circular Quay, got a good laugh out of a frightened barmaid one Autumn day in 1937. When a four-foot snake… Read More ›
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Bondi pub drinkers rally for war bonds
The sale of war bonds was a significant aspect of the Australian home front during the Second World War. Administered by the Commonwealth War Loan Office, the war loans scheme encouraged Australians to buy war bonds which would mature… Read More ›
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Newcastle’s three ‘Great Northerns’
The current Great Northern Hotel at Newcastle opened in 1938. It’s the third hotel of the same name to occupy the site, its predecessors having been in operation since 1864. The hotel was designed by Sydney architects Rudder and Grout and built… Read More ›
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