It was a yawning gap in my story about gay Hamilton of
the 1970s and 1980s and the wine bar at the corner of Beaumont and Donald
Street.
I wrote in that post about the O’Beirne Grocery, established
around 1915 at 34-36 Beaumont Street. Already
selling bottled wine, it became a ‘wine saloon’ in 1926. Remodelled in 1970 by
new licensee Bernard Sarroff, the ownership of what had been Bernie’s Bar changed
again around 1974.
05 November, 2014
21 October, 2014
The Queen's Arms on Cameron's Hill
He was a man of influence in Hamilton – James Cameron. So
influential was he that the locality boasting his hotel, the Queen’s Arms,
became known as Cameron’s Hill. Cameron’s Hilll supplanted Winship’s Hill, which
had been named for James Barron Winship, a mine manager for the Australian
Agricultural Company from 1860.
30 September, 2014
Deitz Hardware - a Hamilton fixture
Guest blogger Sandra Hargreaves
Sandra Hargreaves is a Novocastrian
who lives and works in London. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Reilly Deitz,
who began working in the hardware store at 88 Beaumont Street, Hamilton [1] after
World War 1. Reilly (as he was known) purchased the business in 1932 and after
World War II, his son Charles Douglas Reilly (Doug, Sandra’s father) joined
him.
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