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The Grand Hotel
The Grand Hotel is a real location in Newcastle, New South Wales, named across the written works of C. W. Smith. Grand Hotel, cnr Church & Bolton. It is plotted on the Literary Atlas of Newcastle among the city's city & civic sites.
Across the works
Pastoral Scanlines
He writes from the wing-chair in its sunken bar lounge, watching a storm and a rainbow over the airfield.
my wing-chair here, facing four broad window panes in the sunken bar lounge of The Grand Hotel, looking out to the beach at a storm passing through— Pastoral Scanlines
Fellow Disjecta
The same sunken lounge anchors much of the essay's meditation.
facing four broad window panes in the sunken bar lounge of The Grand Hotel— Fellow Disjecta