#aussiepubs

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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