This newspaper picture, taken at Darling Harbor, Sydney in May 1948, shows workmen loading Toohey’s beer on to a train. Picture: The Sydney Daily Telegraph May 11 1948.
Toohey’s Brewery
Draught beer off in Canberra
SUPPLIES of draught beer have “dried up” in four Canberra-hotels and canned and bottled beer supplies are dwindling. Hotel Kingston barmaid Marg Kean (pictured) is shown pouring beer from a can for a customer yesterday. The only other man in… Read More ›
The breweries of Edmund Resch
ARGUABLY Australia’s most enduring brew, Resch’s Draught is one of the last of Sydney’s 19th century beers that continues to be available from the bars of pubs in the Harbour City. Along with Toohey’s Draught, Resch’s remains a popular beer… Read More ›
Four pints of beer daily kept him healthy
HARRY Whitehouse, 72, of Livingstone Road, Marrickville, yesterday said he was vigorous and healthy because he had drunk four pints of beer a day during the past 52 years. Mr Whitehouse (pictured) retired on January 31 from the position of… Read More ›
Chelmsford Hotel, Kurri Kurri.
ON a road trip to the upper Hunter, we stopped at the bandaged Chelmsford Hotel at Kurri Kurri. The poor old lady was undergoing a bit of a facelift, and she wasn’t in the best state to be photographed…. Read More ›
The Urwins, pub managers: Headlands Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © IN the days when the two big breweries ruled the liquor industry, owning most of New South Wales’ hotels, and ‘tying’ clubs and pubs to exclusive beer sales, Bob and Lurline Urwin made quite a name… Read More ›
Parramatta Road’s Bald Faced Stag
By MICK ROBERTS © SEVEN kilometres from the heart of Sydney, along the Parramatta Road at Leichhardt, is one of the city’s oldest trading pubs. Although built in 1926, the Bald Faced Stag Hotel has served up beer under several names… Read More ›
Johanna Ryan: The untold story of an Irish landlady and her pubs
By MICK ROBERTS © FIFTY five years after the death of her husband, Irish hotelier Johanna Ryan was finally reunited with her spouse Michael, laid to rest beside him in the Catholic section of Australia’s largest cemetery. The year was… Read More ›