Good Bastards Hall of Fame
Bob Stuart

Bob Stuart worked at the Fox Mill about 35 years ago and helped me through a few scrapes. We shared some fairly solid sessions at the Fox Hotel, substantially contributing to their coffers as we sorted out the problems of the day.

In those days Bob had a propensity to get kicked out of the Fox Pub with regular excitement. In fact he scored somewhere in the region of about 20 lifetime bans from the legend of South Westland Hospitality, Mary Kerr. I think I copped a couple meself.

So, you can imagine the surprise I got the other day when I walked into the Fox Hotel and asked who was the bar manager as I wanted to sell them some Good Bastards Beer. Bob Stuart fronted up and we both got a hua of shock.

I guess it only goes to show that if you can get enough lifetime bans from a place, you'll finish up running it.

At a party in the staff quarter's hut one night way back then, the keg had a bit of a leak and the jug catching it had been kicked over a couple of times. (Not by Bob or me) The hut was awash with grog and Bob decided we should clean it up. So he stuffs off, only to return a few minutes later with a power saw. He starts it up, deafening every bastard, smoke everywhere, stinking to the high heavens, then he proceeds to cut a hole in the floor of the hut to let the excess booze flow out!

The Fox Hotel had a continuous flow of female staff passing through. Something some blokes have never been quite able to drag themselves away from.

Wayne and Colleen Muirden and Sue and John Gibb