By MICK ROBERTS © FROM a humble innkeeper on the NSW South Coast with a keen interest in horse racing, to one of Australia’s wealthiest businessmen, the story of George Adams centres firmly on Sydney’s Tattersalls Hotel. Having a punt… Read More ›
Hilton Hotel Sydney
Marble Bar makes comeback
SYDNEY’S well loved and well remembered Marble Bar, of the old Adams Hotel, is to reappear early next year. The entire 45ft. square of Victorian opulence, mecca of sentimental drinkers for 75 years, and dismantled two years ago, is now… Read More ›
Way before Sydney’s Hilton Hotel offered beds to travellers, there was the notorious Bull’s Head Inn
By MICK ROBERTS © SPEAKING at the officially opening of the Sydney Royal Arcade in 1882, a council alderman described the Bull’s Head Inn and surrounding shops as “massed filthy dens and cesspits”, and their demolition to make way for… Read More ›