Harp Hotel Wollongong

Old Billy Fitzpatrick called the Harp Hotel his local for 65 years

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By MICK ROBERTS © THE Harp Hotel was old Billy Fitzpatrick’s second home. The retired baker had been a ‘regular’ at the pub, in the Illawarra region of NSW, for 64 years when he was photographed enjoying a noggin of… Read More ›

Old Jimmy Woodser: The lone drinker

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Jimmy Woodser is a name given to a man who drinks alone, or a drink consumed alone. The name is thought to come from a poem by Barcroft Boake, published in The Bulletin on May 7 1892, about a fictional… Read More ›

George Tory’s Kiama Hotel

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By MICK ROBERTS & MICHELLE HOCTOR © KIAMA Inn is the oldest business in Kiama Municipality having operated from the same site – on the south-east corner of Terralong and Shoalhaven Streets – continuously since 1853. After Wollongong’s Harp Hotel,… Read More ›