CHALKBOARD WISDOM
A few gems to inspire chalkboard writers around Australia.
Bush Telegraph
UNEMPLOYED – BARMAID WITH 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE
It’s a new era at Gladesville, as Australia’s longest-serving barperson hands in her towel. Starting work as a young woman, Lily Fleming was employed at Gladesville’s main road landmark, the Bayview Tavern in the mid-1950s. Since then she has maintained order and broke in new recruits at the popular hotel until reaching the rare milestone
TOP HOTELIER HONOURED IN GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
One of Australia’s best-known hoteliers has been awarded ‘Champion of Entrepreneurship’ in the prestigious Enrst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Starting his career as a bank clerk, Peter Hurley began in hospitality 40 years ago in a country town called Wuddina. He has gone on to build an amazing trail of milestones, notably
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BALMAIN PUB GROUP GROWS GREENWOOD
The Balmain Pub Group has relaunched North Sydney’s Greenwood Hotel, as owner Nick Wills returns to his roots. Following a quiet acquisition of the Hotel late last year, BPG traded through the Christmas period before undertaking stage one of a make-over for the historic venue. Originally built in 1892 as a church and later operating
ED’S RANT: CAPITALISM OR COTTON WOOL – WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Like many people, I love a good stat. Whether it be something obscure such as Bill “Fire Down Below” Barkins’ insurmountable record of 6.24 cup adjustments per innings playing Major League Baseball, or comparatively innocuous ABS data showing Aussies are drinking less than they have for fifty years. The problem arises when the topic of
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CHEEKY PUB OPERATORS STICK OUT FROM CROWD
As the British pub scene continues its seemingly relentless march toward anonymity and streamlined operations, one operator is attempting to impart a little ‘scouser’ humour into its venues. On Doric Street, in Seaforth, Merseyside, sits a 100-year-old pub long known as The Doric. New owners AtWill Pubs have changed the pub’s name to something they
WHIM CREEK PUB – HEART OF STEEL AND GOLD
One of Australia’s most remote and history-soaked pubs has reopened, with a new significance and “ground-breaking” ownership. Built in the 1890s, between Roebourne and Port Hedland in WA’s Pilbara region, the original Whim Creek Hotel was demolished in a cyclone before its tenth birthday. Early in the Twentieth Century, a steel frame structure destined to
TAYLORS WINES: NANNY STATE GONE TOO FAR
One of Australia’s First Families of Wine has rightfully called foul over the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code’s rejection of its ad: Life – Drink it in. The ABAC deemed the ad to be inappropriate, for reasons yet to be explained. Mitchell Taylor – third-generation managing director of Taylors Wines, multi-award-winning legend of the Clare Valley
THE SOUL OF R&R WILL GO ON AT THE BOURBON
There are likely those that have almost tired of me banging on about Kings Cross and The Bourbon, but the subject deserves at least one more hit. It was with mixed feelings this week I reported the sale and purchase of one of Sydney’s most famous pubs. After every reasonable attempt to set the example
BRAWLS IN THE STREETS – WHERE’S THE MEDIA?
Shortly following the posting by a major Sydney newspaper of the incident involving a glassing at a hotel in Camden, a dossier of articles around street violence was rolled out with surprisingly little weight given to its shocking contents. The story on the glassing that took place in the Camden Hotel was almost a verbatim