By MICK ROBERTS © WHILE my wife ran a few errands, I waited over a schooner of Resch’s at the White Horse Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Pulling-up a bar stool, I noticed sitting beside my beer, a tip… Read More ›
Broken Hill
The Quondong Hotel: 1891-2000
“QUONDONG HOTEL, 33 miles from anywhere. Half-way house on the Menindee to Broken Hill coach line.” – The Sydney Mail, Wednesday, October 26, 1910. By MICK ROBERTS © ALL that remains in the arid outback setting of where the Quondong Hotel… Read More ›
The Yanco Glen Hotel
FOR AN UPDATED AND MORE DETAILED VERSION OF THIS STORY, VISIT: Outback Sands Reclaim Yanco Glen Hotel IN January 1987, with a group of friends travelling outback NSW, we stopped at a memorable little galvanised iron pub, with the tiniest… Read More ›
They’d been ‘milked’ enough
THE recent beer shortage in our town (Tocumwal) recalls 1940, when Broken Hill staged a beer strike during the hottest part of the year. Pubs were open. Beer was “on”. But there were no customers. In the blazing heat (temperatures never below 107 deg.), gangs of… Read More ›