The date above the entrance is 1907, so it would have been one of the original buildings in Newnes, and
the only one to survive. It nearly didn't survive; it used to be on the other side of the road near the river
and threatening to fall into it. In 1987 a party of enthusiastic volunteers (i.e. a REAL party) spent a weekend
taking it apart, manhandling it across the road and re-assembling it. It's not licensed as a hotel now, but sells
firewood and other necessities to weekend campers. Another picture of this hotel, 12 years earlier, is at:
http://www.pbase.com/lambsfeathers/image/25384527
This is one of six pictures from here used without my permission and without
acknowledgement by "Webthingys" in a Lithgow Council tourist promotion site.