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Evolution of an old Merrylands’ pub into the Billabong Hotel

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

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Thirsty gold mining district of Kalgoorlie had almost 100 pubs last century

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

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Brothers, butchering and beer

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

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Olive’s three ‘petticoat pubs’ were run entirely by women

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

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Berrima’s Surveyor General license lapsed in 1895: Title to Australia’s oldest ‘continuously licensed’ pub challenged

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

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Publican unlucky in love: Wealthy hotelier murdered by cheating wife

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

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The Plasto pubs: Four Sydney publican brothers, Frank, Bob, Reg and Len

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

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How the Hidden Treasure Hotel got its name: A history of a Newcastle pub

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

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Publican to the miners: ‘Bold Mac’, of the Murchison goldfields

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

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Roast beef, crisp brown spuds and a few ‘long-uns’ at the Cecil Inn

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

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Opposition publican ‘cut the grass’ on the Blue Duck’s grand opening

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

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Kiwi publican hosted Sydney’s grandest hotels before murdering his wife and taking his own life

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

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White Horse effigy and the Box Hill pub

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

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The Dog and Duck, Haymarket, Sydney: 1815-1891

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.

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Tragic death of the founder of Prospect’s Royal Cricketers’ Arms

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

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Queensland pub recalls the tragic death of an Aboriginal woman

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

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Road trip: Glenroy Hotel, Alexandria

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