The late Sydney couple Carole and Walter Lamerton lived a colourful life. In the 1950s, Walter, a geology enthusiast raised in leafy Lindfield, and Carole, an arts student reared in the eastern beaches suburb of Coogee, met at a social dance when they were introduced by mutual friends.
The pair later married and would go on to own and run some of Sydney’s most iconic watering holes, including Newtown’s The Bank and art deco landmark The Erskineville Hotel, locally dubbed The Erko.
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