But drinking habits finally shut her doors… THE Victoria Hotel, survived three cyclones, and everything Mother Nature could throw at her, but the almighty dollar finally shut her doors in 2014. Three major cyclones have unroofed the Vic over its… Read More ›
“That’s where the dead men lie” out on the plains of the Never Never. An overflow of bottles from an outback pub. Each bottle costs three shillings when full. This is in the Northern Territory. So, after all, dead men… Read More ›
Man’s Head Blown Off DARWIN, Oct. 20 – A heavy explosion at the Club Hotel late last night caused a sensation. The police rushed to the hotel, and found that Adam Wright had blown his head off with a plug… Read More ›
IN retribution to the owner of the Stuart Arms Hotel deciding to go into the grocery business, Northern Territory legend, Lycurgus ‘Ly’ Underdown, decided to open Alice Spring’s second pub in 1933. Underdown had been operating a grocery store in… Read More ›