SYDNEY: Sydney’s oldest barmaid Lil Miles has never been a drinker, but after four decades in the job at her family’s Bells Hotel in Woolloomooloo the 91-year-old still hasn’t tired of pulling beers.

“I’ll keep going,” said the diminutive great-grandmother, even though the Sydney pub scene has changed vastly from the wild days of the 1970s when big spending sailors and dockside workers kept the hotel busy.

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