The Air Raid Tavern Centre, Moruya

Deco Windows, Moruya

I found these fabulous Art Deco windows on a former bakery in Moruya on the southern coast New South Wales.

Monarch Hotel-Motel, Moruya

I'm just not sure. The colours mauve & pink on the second storey and 1970's brown tiles at street level.

A plaque explains the site's history. Thomas Staunton had the Gold Diggers Arms here in 1859 which he later updated to The Commercial, a two storey timber hotel.

In 1939, J J King came along and built effectively the structure that remains today. He called it the Hotel Monarch after the British battleship as a result of a competition for possible names.

Michel P Nader remodelled the building into a Hotel-Motel in 1972. I suppose Mr Nader is responsible for the brown tiles. And actually I'm fairly sure I do not like the brown tiles but I suppose there is or will be in the future a Seventies Society that will love them.