Are Aussie pubs really filled with tiles because it's easier to wash off the pee? History has a slightly different story
- Written by: Tanja Luckins, Historian, Department of Archeology and History, La Trobe University
The public bar at Hancock's Essendon Hotel, photographed around 1938.
Harold Paynting Collection, State Library of Victoria.The “six o’clock swill” is one of the best known terms in Australian history. It captures the unedifying drinking habits of a 50-year period from the first world war until the 1960s, when hotel bars closed...
