12 December, 2014
A community celebrates its stories
It wasn’t until I took my place near the
lectern, ready to speak, that I saw the crowd that had been tucked around the
corner, out of my line of sight. Momentarily, I was shocked at how many people had gathered. I’d been immersed in signing books, focused on a queue of people that just kept on replenishing itself.
05 November, 2014
Bernie's Bar
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.
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.
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.
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