EVERYONE loves a good ghost story – especially when it involves a pub. Bulli’s Heritage Hotel, on the NSW South Coast, has been ‘haunted’ by ‘Old Ted’, a former publican, for almost 90 years. Many a publican and resident of… Read More ›
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The Bulli Creek Hotel
Yes… There’s another Bulli, besides in the Illawarra, NSW. Bulli Creek is located south west of Toowoomba in Queensland on the Darling Downs. And yes, there is also another Bulli pub, besides the Illawarra’s Heritage Hotel… Well, kind-of… Bulli Creek… Read More ›
MP ‘literally’ dropped into his local pub
HERE’S a yarn from the annals of Bulli’s old Denmark Hotel. The pub traded on the NSW South Coast from 1877 to 1911. On Boxing Day 1901, the local member of parliament, John Barnes Nicholson “dropped” into the the pub… Read More ›
Unlucky pub roustabout was killed by a train while on his way to collect a £30,000 inheritance
By MICK ROBERTS © A drifter, William Price did most odd jobs around the pubs where he worked in return for boarding and lodgings. He did jobs like tapping beer kegs or barrels, to collecting glasses, cleaning toilets, and emptying… Read More ›
Tom’s tall tales from the box seat
By MICK ROBERTS © “Driver Kelly would tell hobgoblin stories by the way, especially of the ‘little one-legged man of Bottle Forest’, whose footprint it was considered uncanny to come across. No one would camp anywhere along the road if… Read More ›
Old Ted: The ghost of Bulli pub
By MICK ROBERTS © MISSING trays of glassware and boxes of spirits, mysteriously turning-up later, cutlery re-arranged in the dining room, locked doors found wide open, eerie taps on the shoulder, and weird sounds throughout the middle of the night,… Read More ›