LATER this year the Broadway Museum marks its first century and last weekend history buffs cracked open the building's history.
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Helping them out were three descendants of the Broadway Hotel's first licensee, James Thomas McConville.
Catherine Gilbert (nee Fraser) and her brothers Terry and Bernie made their way from Sydney, the state's north and across the ditch in New Zealand to see their family's contribution to Junee's heritage.
In the early 1900s, James McConville was a mounted officer with the NSW police - at one point the only officer looking after hundreds of gold miners in Stuart Town in central NSW.
In 1913 he quit the force and arrived in Junee, becoming the licensee for the Royal Hotel.
McConville operated the Royal while Broadway was built until 1914 when it was finished and began trading in 1915.
McConville eventually left the hotel in 1922.
From McConville's seven children, four were married and of the 22 grand children, only Leila Fraser's five children are alive.
Only Mrs Gilbert's older brother and younger sister Kevin Fraser and Margaret Mood didn't return to Junee for the weekend.
Mrs Gilbert said he returned to Junee in 2005 to see the Broadway Hotel handed over to the Junee community.
"I'm delighted they've turned it into a museum, it's the best thing it could be used for," she said.
She presented the Junee Historical Society with a collage of images from the family's collection about the first licensee at the pub.
Mrs Gilbert said when her older brother Kevin visited last time, he said there was no mention of McConville, the collage contains some of the history Mrs Gilbert knows about her grandfather.
"It's something I wanted to do because when I'm gone, it (the history) will be lost," she said.