inside the Sandy Creek Hotel, Darling Downs QLD Aust.

Several hotels were built at Sandy Creek in 1866. Adam Smith built the Darling Downs Hotel (locally known as the Sandy Creek Pub) in 1875. It operated as a coach stop for changing horses from 1880 until the railway opened in 1904. In the 1920s, the old Darling Downs Hotel was replaced with the current building. There is no town or village officially known as Allan is a rural Southern Downs Australia, better known as Sandy Creek. TROVE (extract local paper)Saturday 19th August 1940 EXCITEMENT AT Sandy Creek Running amok in the Darling Downs Hotel, at Sandy Creek, Patrick James Mullins “Patty” turned the bar-room into a bottle shooting gallery, slicing off the lops of spirit decanters with a deftness. Which horrified the licensee, who, at one stage, according to his own evidence, was threatened with sharing a like fate. Mullins caused a commotion through the house by marching into nearly every bedroom, and turning the beds upside down. As a sequel to his carousal, Mullins appeared in the Police Court