Like the wheatbelt town surrounding it, Sea Lake's once-grand pub was in a slow, sad decline. So John Clohesy made a decision that has breathed life back into the pub, and the community. LAURA TURNER talks to locals about how they resurrected the Royal Hotel.

AN old ute pulls up on Sea Lake’s main street swinging over to the curb and rolling into the shadows of a weathered, but still grand old ...