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This was the main factor leading to the growth in sly-grog shops.

Hobart Town in sly-grog shops where all manner of home-could be obtained.

Sly-grog shops provided station-hands and shearers from the surrounding areas with a focus for entertainment, social interaction and drunkenness.

In consequence, sly-grog shops (sometimes of the travelling variety) became an institution in these districts, often associated with particular pastoral runs or situated along mail-routes.

Sly-grog shop (or shanty)

The NSW "six o'clock swill" saw the rise of sly-grog shops, and lasted until 1955 when the closing time was changed to 10 pm following another referendum.

Undeterred, Gannon and his large family operated the establishment, known as "Gannon's Hotel", as a sly-grog shop and boarding-house.

Edward Roset constructed a hotel at Booligal (possibly in collaboration with Neil McColl), which probably operated initially as a sly-grog shop.

In the early stages of British settlement in Australia, the word grog entered common usage, to describe diluted, adulterated and sub-standard rum, obtainable from sly-grog shops.

In the summer months they would sleep on the mountain during the day and creep back into town at night to rob and steal so that they might frequent the drinking dens, sly-grog shops and brothels.

Sly-grog shops eventually expanded from their urban context and increased in numbers in rural areas during the period of progressive establishment of farms and pastoral runs in south-east Australia (generally distant from police and bureaucratic control).

It had been all right to call each other Jimmy and Fred in the days when he was a shearer and the Chinaman used to visit the sheds with his hawker's cart which was really a travelling sly-grog shop.

This house was also used by Leigh as her main illegal hotel or Sly-grog shop during this time and was known in Sydney as the Lansdowne Hotel, not to be confused with the legal 'Lansdowne Hotel' in City Road, Broadway.

As townships and police-stations became established and more numerous along the inland rivers in the latter half of the 19th century the sly-grog shops tended more often to be found on the back-blocks and regions further inland, following the squatters and their workers as they developed more marginal areas.

We take them to the shanty areas and go inside.

But students wanted the shanty to stand until American policy changes.

Waiting a little longer, I went back to the shanty.

They reached the last shanty at the end of the street.

My mother pulled me to one side as the shanty men came through.

The shanties looked different today, though, and there seem to be more of them.

Either way, it wouldn't provide new homes for those still living in shanties.

Still shaking his head he went back into the shanty.

Fishing is the main industry, and the families live in shanties.

One to wear in the shanty, that same for the street.

That was the last shanty in the block, so they turned back.

They were to live in the little shanty that we had just left, and work the farm.

A shanty town in Brazil is a good place to find out.

After so many weeks, she knew the way to the hunters' shanty.

This turns up in a lot of old shanties and is quite different from the current meaning.

He turned toward the shanties and gave a low whistle.

A depression is huge and that's when you're talking shanty.

The shanties hold the people who have fallen off life's edge.

There are no power lines to any of the shanties in this block.

He hadn't intended for the shanties to catch on fire, but many of them had.

Huge department stores were next door to little shanty houses.

The shanties had changed little since he'd been a boy trying to crawl his way out of them.

There were three or four more shanty shops in the block.

They did not have money and were forced into shanty towns.

On a rock directly in front of the shanty Buck took up his watch.