Australian Pub Project

The old Merrylands Hotel, corner of Sherwood and Merrylands Roads, Merrylands, 1964. Picture: Tony Maston Collection, Cumberland Council Lib

Foundry Hotel, Maritana-street Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 1935. Picture: State Library of Western Australia LEGEND has it that at one tim

By MICK ROBERTS © THE five Hill brothers made their fortune through beer, wine and spirits. The ‘currency lads’ – a name given to native bor

Olive Edgar (right) with her all women staff at the Gippsland Hotel, St Kilda. Picture: Melbourne Herald, June 20, 1946. THE year before Oli

The Surveyor General Inn, Berrima, about 1870. Picture: State Library of NSW By MICK ROBERTS © THERE’S no doubt, Berrima’s Surveyor General

Roy Ferguson. Picture: Brisbane Truth September 27, 1953. Roy’s first pub, the Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle, 1930. Picture: Tooth & Co Collect

The Plasto flagship pub, The Ship Inn Hotel, Circular Quay, Sydney, 1949. Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University. By

The former Hidden Treasure Hotel after the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Picture: Newcastle Region Library By MICK ROBERTS © BY the 1870s most

John McManaway’s Excelsior Hotel, Cue, Western Australia. John McManaway was a famed Western Australian publican, who hosted three pubs to t

The Tyers River Inn, with a coach and a wagon outside, situated on the Moe to Walhalla coach road C1890. This is before the large dining roo

By MICK ROBERTS © A HUGE crowd gathered at Billy O’Connell’s remote pub in the Victorian highlands waiting for its official opening – and fr

Duncan made a name for himself as manager of Warners Hotel (circled), Christchurch, New Zealand. Picture: Supplied. Inset: James Alfred Dunc

The replacement White Horse Hotel, Box Hill, C1933. This single storey hotel was built in 1895 to replace the original, two storey White Hor

George Street South today, showing the location of the Dog and Duck. The large high rise building to the left is where the inn once traded.

Royal Cricketers Arms, Prospect. Picture: Royal Cricketers Arms Facebook Page FORMER publican, Jim Manning had been missing for over 24 hour

Leap Hotel near Mackay. Picture: Julie R Roughan I SUPPOSE it should be expected that a pub named after a tragic event in Australian history

The Glenroy Hotel, Alexandria, 2019. Picture: Mick Roberts Collection. The Glenroy Hotel, Alexandria, 1930. Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, A