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 […]
Steven Speed and Peter Walker have snapped up Oscars Hotels’ Camperdown pub as the market spurs “opportunities” for leaseholds and specialist operators. Speed and Walker’s WDS Group already operates the Bellevue Hotel, where it has just completed an upstairs refurb, and “Sydney’s Oldest Pub” the Fortune of War, in The Rocks. The Fortune has just
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Battlers Peter and Jayne Fitzpatrick have become entangled in Council red tape around their community pub, in Rappville, near Casino. Just 16 months after purchasing the heritage-listed Rappville pub, the Fitzpatricks are on the verge of closing under weight of regulations and penalties imposed by the local Richmond Valley Council (RVC). They are asking for
Pubs in NSW and Queensland were victims of armed robberies by amateurs over the weekend, shocking victims with firearms to secure small amounts of cash. Just before midnight on Saturday, two men entered Spirit Hotels’ Hotel HQ in Logan, in south Brisbane. Armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a tomahawk, the pair demanded money from
Two venues operated by John Hussey have fallen, with receivers taking possession and agreements “extinguished”. The Gold Coast Bulletin reported one of the glitter strip’s biggest nightclubs – Shooters – closed suddenly, with several dozen now-out-of-work employees said to be in shock over the news. Property manager of the building, Trevor Park, stated that the
Bruce Solomon’s Solotel last night relaunched one of Sydney’s most historic hotels – former home of Henry Lawson, the Edinburgh Castle. In the final years of the 19th century, iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson inhabited one of the upstairs rooms of the pub, where he drank voluminously and launched his illustrious career, penning
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A fire that destroyed a new near-complete Melbourne pub last October was deliberately lit by the builder struggling to meet the opening deadline. Police investigated the arson attack, reported by Andrew Winston McMahon at the time as started by two men in balaclavas he surprised in the early morning, who subsequently beat and left him
Arguably the largest pub on the SA coast has hit the market, with an enormous trading area and price expectations exceeding $13 million. The Glenelg Pier Hotel (GPH) is located on 2,338 m² in the top trading zone of the tourist mecca Adelaide beach suburb of Glenelg. It is the beachside level beneath the popular
Colonial Leisure Group has unveiled the first stages of plans for its first NSW pub – the newly-acquired Newtown Hotel. After purchasing the popular inner-west venue in February, Colonial Leisure Group (CLG) took possession in April and has moved to make its mark on the Newtown pub, located in one of Sydney’s most dynamic and
A study by La Trobe University has found the vast majority of alcohol is not consumed in licensed premises, and calls for measures beyond the blame and restrictions heaped on pubs and bars. Surveying more than 2,000 Australians, the University sought to learn where alcohol is consumed, and where ‘risky’ drinkers do their drinking. It
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