B.A. (Hist), Grad. Dip. Local & Applied History
The Bulletin HotelHenry Lawson, 1901
‘I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand –
Which, I’m told, is very tony — and its front looks very grand;
And I somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well,
Of a palace in Australia called The Bulletin Hotel.
Just a little six-room’d shanty built of corrugated tin,
And all round a blazing desert — land of camels, thirst and sin;
And the landlord is ‘the Spider’ — Western diggers know him well —
Charlie Webb! — Ah, there you have it! — of the Bulletin Hotel.’
