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RICH chapter in Sydney's pub culture will come to an end this weekend when Harald and Trish Muller pour their last beers at the iconic East Sydney Hotel.
All they hope is that the commitment they made 15 years ago to keep one of Sydney's oldest pubs forever free of pokies, doesn't eventually follow them out the door.
When pokies were introduced to pubs in 1999, the Mullers were one of the few publicans to reject them. It was a decision that has afforded the pub an icon status among rivals.
"I refused to take part in ripping off working class people," Mr Muller says.
"And that's what they were designed to do. They were designed to take money off families who can least afford it."
It was this decision, they claim, that has been the key to the success and survival of one of Sydney's oldest pubs, first built on the corner of Crown and Cathedral streets in 1856 as the Shamrock Hotel.
"We said we would keep it in the tradition of what a pub was designed for in the first place…a wonderful meeting place," he says.
"And we have proven the point that you can make a good living out of a pub without pokies."
But after 35 years, they have finally sold out of the pub business. "We want to now enjoy the fruits of our labour," Muller says.
That labour included many days and nights working behind their own bar.
"It's probably why we didnt go broke, " Muller jokes.
"But in all that time, we have never had a fight in this pub, we've never had security. And we've never had a pokie machine.
"It's sad to leave but, it was time to move on, to do something different."
The new owners, a Sydney family, are believed to be committed to keeping the pokie ban.
Source: The Telegraph
"Often described as Scotland’s most haunted pub, part of The Banshee Labyrinth is located in some of the city’s underground vaults. It is also rumoured to be occupied by a banshee! The story goes that a group of workmen once heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the depths of the pub and a few hours later one of the men found out that a member of his family had died. There are also reports of drinks flying off tables and smashing into walls." [ inlingua-edinburgh.co.uk ]
Barcaldine, Queensland. The pub was opened in 1887 by the Lennon family from Ireland. It was the second Railway Pub. This pub and its forebears had a propensity for burning down, several times in fact, even while it was being rebuilt. Destroyed 1896, 1927 and again in 1929 when a rebuild was occurring. It seems like its run of bad luck ended there. How many Railway pubs in Australia, well, google will tell you!
A road train loaded with cattle is just entering the shot to the right.
The King & Castle pub located in the station buildings at Kidderminster Town station, SVR.
1st November 2018
at Brooklyn Park Pub in SE Portland
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Nikon F3, Ilford HP5+ black and white film, shot at ISO 1600, home-developed in Ilfotec DD-X, printed on fiber paper at Portland Community College darkroom
The dog and partridge is onPalmerston street bollington, near Macclesfield, Cheshire. It's one of Robinson's chain of pubs
Old dockers pub surrounded by new-build offices and High-Rise Apartments. It has been standing since before 1827, in Pilot Street in an area of Belfast known as Sailortown.
There is evidence in the form of manacles attached to an upstairs wall that the building was once used as a ‘holding station’ for convicts before transport to Australia.
The place was also reportedly used as a ‘bordello’ during the early 1900’s.It survived a fire... which almost gutted the place. and two bomb attacks, one from
Hitler and one in the early years of the troubles.
sat the camera on timer mode on the bench in the pub right in front of our snoozing hound for a long exposure so no flash to disturb the sleeping pooch!
The Riva.
She only managed to eke two pints of Pedigree from the cask before it ran out. So it was just Hobgoblin available. But I suppose we were lucky as the pub had only just reopened after a long period of closure.
4th May 2017
Open air terrace.
Queens is a british pub and restaurant in Old Riga. It has more than 18 tap beers to choose from, including local and imported beer.
Pub in church street, dating from 1740 it was called the Blue Bell Inn when I visited in 2019, now after 14 months refurbishment re-named the Spirit Vaults (?? !!)
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The Crystal Palace pub in Bath on Abbey Green. The tree just in shot is the hanging tree where - you guessed it - criminals were hung from.
Obviously this is an HDR shot - I did have the sky in exposure but thought it looked better being blown out. Vertical perspective slightly corrected.
The Pub Restaurant, a longtime landmark at the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, NJ. They are known for their grilled steaks and medieval Old English atmosphere. In the 1930s there was an outdoor wrestling/boxing arena on this site.
Siem Reap's nightspots are unexciting but I can recommend some good places to eat, none of them on Pub Street.
I liked Andre Malraux which is around the corner. A few blocks away, a place to definitely go is owner-chef Joannès Rivière's Cuisine Wat Damnak, which in March 2015 was effectively named best restaurant in Cambodia (it listed in UK Restaurant's Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants at no.50, a first for a Cambodian restaurant; it's affordable, open five days and you have to book ahead). Thai culinary expert David Thompson likes it too.
Marum was great (more on Tree Alliance's restaurants later) and I recommend Sugar Palm and the ice cream and coffee at any Blue Pumpkin. I went to Embassy as the chefs Pol and Sok had been mentored by a Michelin-hatted chef, but the degustation menu with wine, although interesting and a genuine try for haute cuisine, was expensive for Siem Reap (the food outclassed the wine).
The best local travel guide is a quarterly free giveaway (available for Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville) by publisher Canby: www.canbypublications.com/