Imperial Hotel Gatton, GATTON, QLD

My father was the licencee of the Imperial Hotel Gatton from 1941 until 1953. I was born in 1950 and therefore spent the first 3 years of my life living at the hotel. I have 2 older sister and they lived there from when they were born in 1942 & 1944 until 1953. I can remember the stables that were at the back of the hotel plus where the bottle shop is now it was a bootmakers shop until the mid 1960's. I moved to Brisbane in 1971 but when I got married in1973 I stayed at the hotel with my 2 sisters the night before my wedding. I left from there as a bride to get married at St Mary's Church in Gatton on 4/8/1973. My father Vince died in 1968 & my mother Phyllis died in 1969. Mum managed the hotel during the war years while dad was in New Guinea. It was not common for women to manage hotels in those days.