SO, THIS duck walks into the bar. Waddles right up to the taps, sits himself down on a stool and looks up at the bartender.
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The bartender looks down at the duck and says: “What is this, some kind of a joke?”
OK, OK, it’s not the best duck in a bar story around – it’s not even the first one in the Hunter. It turns out that the Bunnan Hotel had a resident white duck at the bar in the mid-1980s. True story.
We had been searching for the Hunter’s favourite watering holes to help escape the summer heat these holidays, but we somehow found ourselves lost in this fascinating collection of photos capturing life in our other favourite watering holes – the best bars, clubs, pubs and hotels in Newcastle and the Hunter.
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Then, we spotted it. The moment, immortalised forever in old photography film, when a white duck called Sexy (yes, this is all true) walked into the Bunnan Hotel.
Here’s Sexy the duck on the bar at the Bunnan Hotel on February 26, 1986, with Stan Scaysbrook (left), Margaret Scaysbrook (right) and Albert Bramley (background).
Now, if that doesn’t make your day today ….
HUNTER PUBS and clubs sure have had a colourful history. Just take The Family Hotel on Hunter Street at Newcastle.
The popular local spot went full circle in July, 2016, when it reopened under the name it had carried for around 60 years.
The Family had been the Duck’s Nuts in 1999 and the Silk Hotel in 2008, before returning to its name origins.
In 2018, The Family was in the news again as one of a growing number of pubs, clubs and hangouts around town welcoming dogs.
SO, this dog walks into a bar ….
