Pub history
The war years of the Commonwealth Hotel.
November 1950
An R.A.A.F Airman caught stealing wirelesses led investigators to the Commonwealth Hotel in search of his weapons. Cook’s radio shop…
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A mysterious suitcase of ladies’ clothes is found by a cleaner in one of the lavatories of the Commonwealth Hotel.…
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A humorous piece appears in the Queensland Times where Steven Bentham recounts the first Lancashire ‘tater pie’ he tasted when…
Read More »January 1939
The hotel was once owned by an international vaudeville and circus performer! Newspapers reported that the colourful former proprietor of the…
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