By MICK ROBERTS © FATE dealt an elderly pensioner a cruel and fatal blow outside a Sydney pub just three days before Christmas, 1948. Like today, Surry Hills at the corner of Crown and Cleveland Streets, outside the Crown Hotel,… Read More ›
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Fred Klauer, musician, digger, raconteur and publican
The following first-hand account from a famous, well-known Adelaide publican, Frederick William Augustus Klauer, was published in the South Australian publication, Quiz and the Lantern, on 17 February 1898. It’s a fascination look into the life of a German immigrant,… Read More ›
Ned Kelly and the Glenrowan Inn continues to be our overall top story
NED Kelly continues to fascinate our readers. The story of the Australian bushranger’s association with the Glenrowan Inn is our most popular story on the Time Gents website. We wind up another successful year with a look at our overall… Read More ›
How a two-storey Landsborough pub was moved over a kilometre by bullock dray
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Landsborough Hotel, located on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland, didn’t always trade from its present address. The pub was established over a kilometre away at the corner of Gympie Street North and Landsborough Maleny Road, and… Read More ›
The publican and the reformed drunkard
MICK ROBERTS © WELL over six feet tall and solidly built, Andrew Lysaght was an imposing and colourful Illawarra publican pioneer. A magistrate, who resigned after a parliamentary inquiry found he called the Wollongong Police Sergeant an “old woman”, he wasn’t… Read More ›