Less than a month after a fire destroyed their home of two decades and life as they knew it, Robyn and Frank Sexton have resumed trading at their scorched, historic Townsville pub. After more than 20 years running Townsville’s oldest pub, the Victoria Park Hotel, in early June the Sextons escaped the building as they […]
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After 50 years behind the bar, Terry Fowler has passed the reins of his Bendigo pub to further enjoy his retirement. One of the stalwarts of the Victorian industry, Terry and family including wife Helen have satisfied customers at half a dozen pubs in the region. Terry began his time in hotels back in 1967,
Patrons came to the rescue as a woman in a Hervey Bay pub absconded with the wallet and memories of an 88-year-old man. Just after midday yesterday witnesses allege a woman fled the hotel in Urangan after snatching the wallet of the older man, who was knocked down and shaken in the incident. Four incensed
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The pub is an institution in Britain. One goes to the pub to celebrate good times, commiserate bad times, and of course when one needs one’s nerves settled. 53-year-old Simon Smith had such a day recently, when at 9:13 in the morning he – against his will – caught the bus to the pub. Unperturbed
Laundy Hotels have been especially hospitable of late, helping one industry newcomer into ‘paradise’ and making another a millionaire. Arthur Laundy’s operation took on the idyllic Tea Gardens Hotel in February of 2015, in partnership with Steve and Trish Rodgers as publicans, citing considerable development plans. But recent changes to circumstances have seen the management
Australian rock icons Midnight Oil have announced their re-formation and Great Circle 2017 world tour will kick off at one of their original homes, the Coogee Bay Hotel. Famous around the world throughout the 80s and 90s for their hard-hitting political activist music, Midnight Oil report they are rehearsing an amazing “170-odd” songs from their
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The Bayfield family is celebrating its 40th anniversary in pubs, keeping up business as usual, fighting cancer and brewing ale. On 27 March this year it will be 40 years since the family took possession of the Dee Why Hotel, which they still own and operate, along with their adjacent Bayfields Liquor Superstore, online business,
A Melbourne man is lucky to be alive after the quick thinking and bravery of staff at the Wharf Hotel, who jumped in the Yarra River to save him. Four bartenders at the Hotel were closing and enjoying an after-hours beverage when one, Matt McKiernan, thought he heard cries for help and went outside to
Outback icons the Maree Hotel and William Creek Hotel have led the revival of South Australia’s famous ‘Maree Man’ – the world’s second-largest geoglyph. Located nearly 800 kilometres due north of Adelaide, in the State’s far north, Maree Man is a mysterious human outline etched into the barren earth near the mostly-dry region of Lake
Wednesday saw a farewell to another legend of Oxford Street, as friends and celebrities mourned the passing of the Albury Hotel backbone, Leigh Jennings. The Albury Hotel reached its peak popularity during the most dramatic period in the gay community, seeing the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Jennings and business
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