TWO barmaids who once pulled beers from the same two pubs in the mid 1890s, tragically took their own lives – two years apart – over broken relationships. Nellie Willis shot her estranged fiancé, Ernest McFadden in the throat at Auburn, in… Read More ›
Brewery Advertising Rejected Newcastle Council has a new water wagon. A brewery firm is also anxious to go on the wagon. At the council meeting last night a letter was received containing congratulations on the up-to-date motor water wagon,… Read More ›
The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel at the Junction, Newcastle, which was licensed on December 13, 1869, and has been in the possession of the McAnliffe family for about 50 years, has closed its doors. It was the oldest hotel building… Read More ›
Circus chimpanzee, Lu-lu turned a few heads when she dropped into a Newcastle pub for a refreshing beer in 1959. While the circus was visiting the NSW steel-town, Lu-lu was photographed by the local newspaper enjoying “a friendly drop of… Read More ›
This is Mr. ‘Toby’ Sanderson, 15 stone, 12 pound (Just over 100kg), Newcastle bowler, now in Brisbane — with ‘Toby’ his personal beer glass. The nine inch high (22cm) glass holds 26 ounces (738.7396ml), and makes the drinking of a bottle of beer a… Read More ›
IN the early days pets of various kinds were kept at hotels to attract custom, and, frequently, they proved far more effective for this purpose than all the modern electric signs. The fame of some of these pets spread throughout the length and breadth of Australia,… Read More ›