“We got some fabulous photos from The Inverell Times, which have been a great hit, and we’ve had some quotes from a bunch of different sources a number of different capers, along with the Elizabeth Wiedemann books and we had the Harold Konz video playing,” Ms Monckton said.

“We had lots of people come and just sit in front of there and watch the movie.

“The documentary is fabulous, it is very, good, it runs for about 45 minutes, Harold went and got a number of different videos that have been taken from a number of different spots around Inverell and he’s put them all together, along with some of his own stuff,” Ms Monckton said.

The video includes scenes from the actual flood itself and Ms Monckton said it has made a fabulous record.

“Rescuing people off Coles and stuff like that, there’s interviews with the Police Inspector at the time and then there’s interviews with business owners and homeowners afterwards and they explain what they have lost and stuff like that,” Ms Monckton said.

A copy of the video is kept in the local history section of the library and can be viewed by library members at any time. In front of the exhibition was a book in which people who had been through the flood could record their recollections of the event.

“I was in year 12 at Inverell High School in February 1991…I remember Mr Symes, the bus driver, being worried about getting the school bus through the rising water on McIntyre Street…” wrote Catherine McBride.

Megan Gaukroger remembered the waiting.

“Sitting with my dad, brothers and the employees of Gaukrogers. Watching the glass windows of the showroom move as the water pressed against them and praying they wouldn’t break…” she wrote.

The next exhibition to be held by the library will celebrate the anniversary of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese during World War II.