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Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel

Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel is located in Medlow Bath, New South Wales, Australia. The hotel is located on a clifftop overlooking the Megalong Valley on the western side of the Great Western Highway.

The Australian retailer Mark Foy began to purchase the site in 1902 for the purposes of a hydropathic sanatorium under the belief that the land contained mineral springs. By the time the hotel opened in 1904, the mineral springs (if they ever existed) had dried up. Mark Foy had mineral water imported from Germany in large steel containers. For more about the hotel history just follow THIS LINK.

Perched on the side of a cliff

Here we are, the A team. 🙂

 From left to right, Vera Lucic & Adrian Yates, Joan Mifsud & yours truly David Herd, Susie & Rod Hitchcock, Gina & Don Reedman.

Adrian was & still is a lawyer in Wollongong, Don went to England in 1969 from Australia on a working holiday for 12 months with a dream of making a career in the music business. He certainly achieved huge success, check out THIS LINK. Here is some of his work.

Rod ended up in California, where the girls wound up, except for Vera who married Adrian, I will never know. 🙂

Here’s 3 handsome dudes

 Adrian Yates, Ian Rich & Paul Webber. After all these years I still occasionally see Ian when he visits Thailand. For the last 40 years he has owned a tennis camp at Huntington Beach in Los Angeles.

Derek Pugh & Jackie Thom

Derek & I worked together at Macdougals LTD in Clarence St Sydney in the late 60s. He ended up importing high class stereo equipment & is now retired & living on the Central Coast north of Sydney. I remember being at a BBQ at Derek’s home somewhere near Queenscliff on December 17, 1967 when the news come on the radio about the prime minister Harold Holt who died while swimming at Portsea, Victoria.

Relaxing with Joan

 A very sweet lady, we went out together for a few months.

Peter Clifford & Phillipa

 Peter also lived most of his life in London, I have a feeling he may have owned a pub somewhere near Marble Arch, sadly he passed away a couple of years ago after a long battle with cancer, RIP old buddy.

Easter 2017 in Spain

 The 3 amigos celebrate a 50 year friendship, Derek, Peter & Don.

Our lovely ladies at the Hydro

 Phillipa, Joan, Susie & Gina in 1968.

Adrian Yates & I.

 We were great friends in the late 60s.

December 2008

Great shot at the Oaks Hotel, not sure if the date is correct or not. Derek, Ian Rich & I at the back with old friend Paul Slaughter with his sister & girlfriend.

California 1983

 Caught up with Ian Rich at his tennis camp in L.A.

Barbara & Jackie

Barbara was with Paul Webber at the Hydro & some years later married a good friend of mine Phil Parkinson. Jackie of course was married to Derek.

Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel

Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel What great memories I have of this wonderful unique hotel & the fabulous friends I was lucky enough to be with.

This shot was taken years later around 1984.

Naturally I had to visit the Hydro again, who said nostalgia was a thing of the past? 🙂

Many thanks for joining me at the Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel. Use THIS LINK for a great discount on rooms.

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