Braidwood Hotel
The Braidwood Hotel, formerly known as Commerical Hotel has a deep history!
- The Georgian hotel built in 1859 has four levels, stone foundations, brick walls and a shingled bloodwood roof. A cottage is also on the property.
- The Rolling Stones frontman, Mick Jagger, frequented the pub during the 1969 filming of Ned Kelly in which Jagger starred. Some locals say Jagger whipped the bar into a frenzy with his hit that year Jumpin’ Jack Flash, others say he played old-style honky tonk on a piano out the back and others remember the rare sight of the multi-talented musician playing guitar.
- Five movies have been filmed in and around the pub and the town including The Year My Voice Broke, starring Noah Taylor and Ben Mendelsohn and Flirting, starring Nicole Kidman.
- Geoffrey Rush, who starred in the 1995 movie Dad and Dave: On Our Selection, is also reported to have visited the Braidwood Hotel while on set.
- The hotel has four open fireplaces downstairs, a commercial kitchen, 30-seat dining room on the ground level and a 30-seat dining room upstairs, new toilets and a pool room. Accommodation includes nine partially updated rooms
- Improvements include a newly constructed basement and cellar, a glycol beer system and refrigeration compressor.
This Cache
The listed coordinates will take you to the front of the Braidwood Hotel. There is a gold plaque out the front as part of the Tallaganda Heritage Trail.
From the Plaque:
Convert letters to a digit, where A=1, B=2…J=0
Dismiss the image and two lines above it. Consider "Braidwood Hotel" as the first line. Also consider any numbers / years as a "word" as to not form any confusion.
A = Second Line, Fourth Word, Third Letter
B = Third Line, Fifth Word, Fourth Letter
C = Sixth Line, Second Word, Second Letter
D = Fourth Line, Seventh Word, First Letter
E = Third Line, Fourth Word, First Letter
F = Second Line, Eighth Word, First Letter minus Second Line, Eighth Word, Ninth Letter
G = Fifth Line, Fourth Word, Tenth Letter
H = Third Line, Second Word, Third Letter
The cache is located at:
S35 2A.BCD E149 4E.FGH
Checksum: S21 E36