“SWALLOW” LESS IN NEW GLASSES Black Wednesday at the Bar! ‘Tis Black Wednesday – a frothy pint costs a penny more from 6 o’clock this morning – blame [Treasurer] Dr. [Earle] Page’s Federal Budget. A pint of beer, ale, lager,… Read More ›
THE Dubbo Dispatch reported a “sordid story” on October 18 1928 after a red faced Albert Morgan hired a room at the Great Western Hotel at Dubbo. Now known as the Garden Hotel, Albert, the Dispatch reported, stayed the night… Read More ›
This barrel broke the drought TO the relief of publicans and drinkers a 34-day-beer strike by workers at the Carlton and United Brewery ended at 3pm on December 2 1952 – just in time for Christmas. Hotels all over Melbourne… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S a feeling of longevity, a sense of durability at the Glenroy Hotel. The Alexandria pub, in Sydney’ inner-southern suburbs, a stone’s throw from Redfern, has been quenching thirsts for as long as anybody cares to… Read More ›
DREAMY-EYED with ecstasy, wharfie Gus Girdler, of Stanmore, savors the delicate fragrance of a daffodil in the “Blue Room” of the Harbor View Hotel. His fellow flower-lovers are ex-middleweight-champion-now-wharfie Jack Haines (left) and George Olson, of Belmore. Watching the trio… Read More ›
PEERING into the tinted windows of the Belfield Hotel, hands cupped, for a minute I thought we had lost another of Sydney’s old pubs. The bar was empty, deserted and tables and chairs upturned. There was no sign of life…. Read More ›
Time Gents visited the Maroubra Bay Hotel, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney today, and were not disappointed. The iconic beachside pub has undergone many transformations over its 92 years of trade. Opened for business in October 1926, its first… Read More ›
Mrs Clara Paton recalled in the Western Mail (Perth) on October 30 1952: NIAGARA’S RISE “IN February, 1895, Dorrie Doolette and Charley Northmore arrived at the 90-mile and asked my husband, Arthur Williams, the licensee of the 90-Mile Hotel, if… Read More ›
THIS grainy image of the Twenty-Mile Hotel, also known as the Half-Way House, being half-way between Aramac and Barcaldine in outback northern Queensland, was taken in 1911. At the time the pub was owned and hosted by Jack Richardson, who later… Read More ›
World famous musician, Percy Grainger (B.1882 – D.1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist, who died in the United States of America. In the course of a long and innovative career, he played a prominent role in the revival of… Read More ›
