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 ›
Adelaide
Rebel Irish flag at Adelaide hotel
A genuine Sinn Fein (Irish rebel) flag, over 50 years old, flew outside the Southern Cross Hotel in King William street yesterday in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. The manager of the Southern Cross (Mr. M. C. Flannagan) said the… Read More ›
Publican’s 270km beer pilgrimage
MR. T. T. FOX, licensee of the Bordertown Hotel, waited from midnight to 8.45 a.m. today at the West End Brewery to replenish his beer supplies, which ran out on Christmas Eve. Mr. Fox was the first in a queue… Read More ›
Adelaide’s Windsor Castle Hotel traded for over a century at Victoria Square
THE Windsor Castle Hotel was established by Thomas Chalk Snr on land he secured at the corner of Franklin Street and Victoria square, Adelaide in 1850. Chalk named his pub the Windsor Castle Hotel, for which he obtained a licence… Read More ›