Brisbane’s heritage-listed Port Office Hotel has been closed after a fire spread through the building on Wednesday afternoon. A fire is believed to have started on the grille of the award-winning pub, situated on the corner of Edward and Margaret street in Brisbane’s CBD. While chefs attempted to extinguish it and thought it was out, […]
The fire that recently destroyed the historic Grand Hotel in Hughenden is thought to have been deliberately lit, ending an era for the Queensland town in an all too familiar way. Around 9:40pm on Friday 16 November, emergency services were called to the old pub, on the corner of Stansfield and Grey Streets, Hughenden – a
A mysterious fire has claimed the historic and closed Farmer’s Home Hotel in Matong, with Riverina authorities currently investigating. Ganmain Police received the call that the 100-year-old pub was on fire on Wednesday. Fire crews battled the blaze, but conceding it was too far gone workers executed a controlled demolition of the building, which had
(Article courtesy Betoota Advocate – Australia’s oldest newspaper) CLANCY OVERELL | Editor A local self-confessed ‘jeans guy’ has today unveiled his disgustingly pale legs, after deciding it is now warm enough to wear shorts. After deciding on a nice pair of khaki knee-lengths, local sports analyst Keiran Gertrude (31) went down to the pub for a
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Fire has destroyed the historic Ranges Hotel in Gembrook, east of Melbourne, with little remaining beyond rescued memorabilia. Dozens of firefighters were called around 4am Monday morning to the heritage-listed Ranges, the only pub in the small town around 75 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, famously at the end of the Puffing Billy railway line.
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A heritage-listed pub in suburban Brisbane has gone up in flames for the third time in eight years, shortly following a $260 million development application for the site. The Broadway Hotel on Logan Road Woolloongabba was built 1889 for publican Michael McKenna by architects John Hall & Son. It showcases late Victorian architecture, influenced by
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The iconic Commercial Hotel in the heart of Dalby has been destroyed by fire, after emergency services were called early Wednesday morning to a blaze engulfing the building. The tile-fronted two-storey brick Commercial Hotel was built in 1909, replacing the original pub structure on the site, built 1885 by Dan Condon, who ran it until
Award-winning publican Geoff Hayward has put his company Capital Management into voluntary liquidation as he exits the pub game. Hayward bought the Brisbane Hotel 15 years’ ago with investor partners, executing a big-budget transformation of the tired pub and positioning it to become a hub of Perth’s burgeoning dining scene, the portfolio coming to include
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The General Gordon Hotel has been destroyed by fire this afternoon, with the roof collapsing, neighbouring buildings damaged, and public transport diverted. Emergency services were called to the historic Sydenham pub around 1:15pm today, finding a significant blaze in the second storey. An exclusion zone was set up, prompted by concerns for the 20 gas
Hannons Hotel in the mining mecca of Kalgoorlie is moving with the times, employing its first ‘skimpy’ bar staff to strut his stuff pulling beers. Founded in 1989 as an amalgamation with adjacent Boulder, Kalgoorlie is 600 kilometres west of Perth and central to Western Australia’s “golden mile”, and shares a hard-living population of around
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