“Any empty beer bottles, ma’am?” “Do I look as if I drink beer?” “Any empty vinegar bottles?”
DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in agony. He died a few minutes later. About a quarter of an hour before a […]
OF the five pubs we visited in the Lake Macquarie area of NSW over the Queens Birthday Long Weekend, the Great Northern at Teralba takes the crown as the most traditional working class watering hole. It’s a ripper. You know immediately when you walk into its cosy public bar, it’s a fair dinkum pub. […]
THE Minmi Hotel is the last man standing in a mining settlement that once boasted a dozen places to wet your whistle. By the late 1870s, the township had 500 men employed at the colliery and business was good at the many pubs. There were the Hand of Friendship, kept by J. Strang: the Northumberland hosted […]
THE second stop on our visit to West Wallsend district’s watering holes this weekend was Lake Macquarie’s second oldest pub – The Museum Hotel. The West Wallsend pub – the last of the town’s pubs – opened in 1889, and was given its name after the publican’s private museum collection, which was housed in the […]
TO think that the Holmesville Hotel was almost lost as a house of hospitality! Time Gents visited the West Wallsend district in NSW over the weekend, dropping into a few of the historic pubs, on what was rainy, miserable Queens Birthday long-weekend. Our first port-of-call was the Holmesville Hotel, which sits at the corner of […]
FOR a little mining town that once had an unquenchable thirst, there’s little wonder six pubs traded at the same time early last century. Today, sadly just one pub remains in West Wallsend. That insatiable thirst seems to have been quenched. While the Museum Hotel’s taps were still pouring, we found the other, the […]
HIS WOODEN LEG There were peculiar circumstance attached to a charge of begging at the Port Adelaide Police Court on Saturday. Timothy Byrnes a miner, of Adelaide, was charged, on the information of Inspector J. E. Noblet, with halving gone from house to house at Hall Street, Semaphore, on January 21 to beg alms. The […]
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN a group of men went to the Killingworth Hotel, a few days before Christmas 1952, asking for bottles of beer, the bar had been closed for an hour and half. It was way past the official closing time of 6pm. Killingworth was a coal town, and it was unwise […]
