The Hub

BIG DREAMS FOR NEW OWNERS OF HISTORIC SMALL-TOWN PUB

Posted on February 8th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
In the true spirit of community, a determined family of patrons have banded together to save their local pub – by buying it. As the weary owners of the almost one-hundred-year-old Bolgart Hotel seek a graceful retirement from the rigours

DARLING DOWNS DARLING BURNS AND CLAIMS PATRON

Posted on January 13th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
[caption id="attachment_4814" align="alignright" width="464"] Photo: website[/caption] The all too common scenario of a regional pub taken by flames recently saw the end of Pittsworth’s Tattersalls Club Hotel and a short-stay resident inside. Around 2:30am last Thursday, fire alarms sounded a

CLASSIC QUEENSLANDER RESTORED AS COMMUNITY HUB

Posted on November 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
[caption id="attachment_4191" align="alignright" width="384"] Image: GDay Pubs[/caption] The century-old Globe Hotel has been revived at the hands of a multi-million renovation, as a hub of the town of Barcaldine. Last Thursday the central-west Queensland town, around 600 kilometres inland from

NEWTOWN PATRONS RUN TO PUB CRAWL

Posted on September 7th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney’s Newtown showed off its ability to eat, drink and rock yesterday, with thousands attending the “King Street Crawl” – without a single incident recorded by police. The brain-child of Matt and Dan Rule – the former operators of the

DECEASED PUB IN TINY TOWN ACHIEVES GLOBAL FIRST

Posted on August 14th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
In a world-first for ‘crowd-funding’ campaigns, the “heart” of a tiny Victorian town will be reborn. A fire destroyed Buchan’s Caves Hotel on 8 April, 2014, leaving the town of just 400 people without its meeting place and best reason

INDUSTRY BACKS PROGRAM GETTING PATRONS “HOME SAFE”

Posted on August 7th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Industry has come out in support of Victoria’s “Homesafe” scheme that promises public transport throughout the night across weekends. Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Wade Noonan announced the Homesafe timetables would begin new year’s day, providing train,

ALCHEMY PUB TO MAKE MIRACULOUS RETURN

Posted on July 24th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Wandsworth Council has ordered a developer to (re)turn an eponymous pile of rubble into gold. Council for UK’s Battersea conservation area has “roundly rejected” a retrospective building proposal by the developer that bulldozed St Johns’ Hill’s The Alchemist pub last