The Australian Eleven Hotel

Elizabeth St & Kettle St Redfern Sydney

"Business picked up at the Australian Eleven Hotel in 1946 when South Sydney Rugby League Club made Redfern Oval its home ground. At this time, the bar manager of the pub was the former welterweight and middleweight boxing champion Alan Westbury, who held the titles in 1942. The end of the Australian Eleven Hotel came when all the property east of Elizabeth Street opposite Redfern Oval was resumed by the New South Wales Government for public housing in May 1950. The pub closed in December 1955" - 'What’s in a name? The history of Sydney’s sporting pubs' by John W. Ross