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Barmaids serving customers in the Newcastle Hotel 1968

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[A1500, K19075]

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The Newcastle Hotel

As a building, the Newcastle was a typical two storey Australian pub. It became something of an arty and intellectual hotel sometime in the early twentieth century when academics, writers, journalists, bohemians, free thinkers and students gathered in the late afternoon and drank

Eating and Drinking

Hotels and Pubs

Newcastle Hotel

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Wharfies' hotel and bohemian meeting place where women joined men in the front bar long before the days of women's liberation. Located at 205 George Street, on the southern corner of George and Essex Streets.