Name: North Gregory Hotel
Address: City: Outback Queensland Australia
Phone: +61 7 4657 1375
What's it like?
Have a toast to bush poet Banjo Paterson at the hotel where Australia's unofficial national anthem, Waltzing Matilda, was first performed, in 1895. The song's chorus and the swagman's image have been sandblasted into the hotel's glass doors by renowned sculptor Daphne Mayo.
This is actually the fourth incarnation of the Winton hotel. The previous three, on the same site, were all destroyed by fire.
The hotel has another claim to fame. Engine trouble forced Lyndon B. Johnson (before he was US President) to overnight here when the Flying Fortress plane in which he was travelling landed on nearby Carisbrooke Station in 1942.
The North Gregory Hotel features self-contained rooms and is run by David and Prue Strang.
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