Yungaburra
Two-storey timber pub that grew from a compact railway-era inn into thirty-eight guest rooms.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lake Eacham Hotel in Yungaburra, in the Cairns hinterland, opens with a mismatch: a village of about one thousand two hundred people, watched over by a timber pub with thirty eight bedrooms. It traces the two storey building the Side Brothers raised in nineteen ten to meet a brand new railway line, and the Williams family who bet on it. From there it follows what the building gained over the next few decades, and why. Stand on the veranda to spot the details still built into its timber frame.
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