Let's not let the unique culture of the Australian pub be lost. This is the place to share your favourite watering hole, pub culture, news and history. Our picture (courtesy of the Northern Leader newspaper)shows Scarborough Hotel licensee Phil Birchall enjoying a cold beer to celebrate the reopening of the historic pub after a 10-month closure. The cliff-top pub, about an hour south of Sydney in the Illawarra, was built in 1886 and is Wollongong's oldest licensed premises.See message 590.