"Any buildings that hadn't been removed once people had signed the money package were put up for tender and removed, or were cut off at the stumps."
"Since then we have had instances of low water levels and you can see the stumps sticking out of the water and see where the hotel had been,"Ms Callaghan said.
"My favourite thing about school was getting to play the record player in the morning which I had to wind up to play the marching music,"he said.
"We had moved over from Germany three years before I started school so we couldn't speak English and everything I learnt at school I taught them at home,"he said.
"I remember playing cricket at school. The cricket pitch was overgrown and full of weeds but we loved playing cricket,"he said.
"When my husband and I bought the property in the year 2000 we wanted to preserve the building and honour the history of it,"she said.
"We've tried to keep it as authentic as we can. The blackboards are still on the wall and we still have the old school bell."
"We've also seen an iron bed and an old stove, and you wonder what the town was like."