Breasting the bar earns Margaret time in the watch house MARGARET Carey, after enjoying a couple of rums at the Strong Man Inn, Parramatta in September 1828, was ordered to spend time in the watch house “until sober” after souveniring… Read More ›
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Stockmen wrestled cow to the bar floor after it ran havoc at Rockhampton’s Oxford Hotel
THE Queensland city of Rockhampton is known as the beef capital of Australia. So when you’re in that neck of the woods, don’t be surprised to hear a few tales about their prized cattle. Like the time when three stockmen… Read More ›
Vauxhall Inn at Granville marked railway opening with “buckets of rum”
A Bucket of Rum An interesting souvenir of the opening of the first railway in New South Wales from Sydney to Parramatta Junction is a miniature bucket. On September 22nd, 1855, the opening day, the proprietor of the Vauxhall Hotel,… Read More ›
Yo, Ho, Ho at the Chamberlain
SYDNEY – A 10-gallon keg of overproof rum was stolen from the cellar of the Chamberlain Hotel, Pitt Street, yesterday afternoon. Thieves took advantage of the crowded bar. and are said to have rolled the barrel through the public bar of the… Read More ›