Poets Recall Motel & Licensed Restaurant

Poets Recall Motel & Licensed Restaurant

The motel was designed around the Old Railway Hotel and the great floodof 1852.The Old Hotel, now the restaurant and bar was built in 1875 and served thethirsty gold miners till it closed in 1924. Australia's forgotten disaster "The Gundagai Flood" claimed twice as manylives as Darwin's cyclone Tracy, and Old Gundagai whose streets were namedafter poets, (Shakespeare, Sheridan etc), was almost completely washed away.