Historic Hydro Majestic Hotel

December 8, 2020 by David Herd

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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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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