Definitely two different papers. Australia changed from £.s.d to the Dollar on 14th February 1966 and the UK changed from £.s.d to decimal currency on the 15th February 1971. I can still add and subtract in £.s.d as I was 15 when the UK changed currency. Loved the house with a feature fireplace in each room and even the matching small building had a fireplace. They must have been quite wealthy, as so many of the buildings that match the house seem to have been built at the same time. The horse-drawn cart turns the whole place into an open air museum. I like to imagine the people working, the sounds of a busy farm and the fireplaces lit. Wish I could time travel!
There was a crushing famine in Finland in late 1600's when a summer did no show due to planetary affairs upstairs & crops failed , cockatoo stew would have been fine dining
In the shearing shed: That belt "driving something else", is driving a shearing comb sharpener. It would have had a large flat plate with sandpaper to sharpen the cutter combs on the hand-pieces (shears). It would have originally had either petrol or diesel engine that has been replaced with an electric motor.
Yes, it's a grinder for sharpening shearers comb and cutter. That machine you fit two discs (abou 40cm 16 inch diameter), one each side, one fine sandpaper and the other course sandpaper. Paul commented no hand pieces on the shearing plant.They are attached to a rod hanging down.The rod has a large amount of movement to shear the sheep. Most shearers had their own hand pieces. They had a universal fitting that every new wool shed they went to. So theirs hand pieces fitted to any. They are like large barbers' clippers. I worked in shearing sheds when I was younger. Obviously, they originally operated an electricity generator, and the Electricity Trust of South Australia put electricity on years later.
Just wishing the walls could talk! So many stories could be re-told & shared amongst newer generations of how life used to be back in the good ol' days.
That house could be restored.. I used to look for these places in NSW between 1988 to 1998. They were usually full of stuff, we would track down who owned them and offer to buy whatever was inside. 9 out of 10 owners were happy to sell. I really enjoyed doing it but I found and easier way to make a living in the building industry. Its fun reliving those times through you videos.
Urbex Indigo thanks for sharing this video with me about this Old farm homestead left to decay/Lots of outbuildings with original shearing shed and equipment this place must of been a nice farm way back in the day i really enjoyed it and i can't wait to see your next video my friend i am from the U.S.A and i gave you a thumbs up and shared you out on my community tab and God Bless and thanks again for another wonderful video.
All these old houses are so beautiful, so much detail, though no stained glass in this one, unless they were taken with the floors and mantels. What fascinates me, really, though, is how thick the walls always are. So amazing. Thanks for the explore again!!
That must have been a gorgeous home back in her Hey day. Although I don't live Australia, I did grow up in the 1970s. Definitely two different newspapers. Take care.
Lovely old home. Built really well using the old methods. Thats why it still standing. People just aren't as smart these days. They dont have the intelligence it takes to upkeep these real homes.
Wow, I've never seen such a fancy tin bath! The only ones I've found have been legless and totally different simple shapes. That's a perfectly beautiful tin bath 🤗💕
I did think the same Sandra about the bath, I thought it was kind of special and to be still sitting in the hut. Maybe the blacksmith and foremen stayed in there :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 the blacksmith shed was huge, I'd guess he fashioned that for his own use, obviously very talented! And worthy of his own private lodgings. Fantastic explore 😎 thanks for my viewing pleasure! I get excited about one aspect and forget the other delights/despairs along the way. Look forward to every one before work on Sunday now 😁
Another great find in an abandoned house here and at one time was very busy with shearing sheep and now totally empty and abandoned just sitting there rotting away i guess the sheep business just played out over the years, another great video Thank You very much.🤠👍
🌟Oh my gosh what a beautiful old gem I love it 🥰 so peaceful and beautiful in the countryside a perfect home. Full of history I’m sure. Shame that the floors were gone, love the wrap around veranda. Thank you so much again 😊❤x :-)
Hi Paul! Another great find. I bet that house was gorgeous back in the day. I look forward to your awesome adventures every weekend. Thanks for sharing.
9:42 My opinion is two different newspapers, by the sketches of the models and the style of the televisions in the first paper I'd say the first half of the 60's. 24:20 Good luck I've heard said. 34:53 I noticed a nice camera trick. 🙂👍 That is one well worn farmstead, I like to think the 1975 newspaper was placed after the place was vacated but then again, time flies fast for this old gas. Thanks for the tour Paul, stayin tuned! 🤠👍
G'day often wonder what makes people abandon workable land and a home with little effort could be kept in good liveable condition, Also the other belt ran to grinding wheel for sharpening the combs one the shearing hand pieces, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
A beautiful country homestead built colonial style where horse and cart used to take the bail of wool to where it had to go and because there was no electricity in the 1800's they had kerosene lanterns to see and a wood stove for cooking and now in todays world we take thing like that for granted I wouldn't mind going back to see what it was like back into the 1800's but Paul thanks for the video and see you in the next one
I love the sheep shearing sheds when you find them!!!! That house is fantastic. I want to take one of those properties and rehab it, and keep the property intact. Can't remember which video- the one where the farm was huge and the lady had the tiered gardens in front? Yes, restore them!!!!- SDK
Really enjoyed that explore Paul. Such a stately looking home, but surprisingly few rooms inside for such a bold facade. The shearing shed would have been pretty flash in it's heyday. Three stands, would have been a hive of activity. As always, looking forward to the next one!
Thanks, Paul ... I agree with other comments that this was a grand home with the shearing shed size and the number of shearers stands showing it was a large and busy wool business. Here's hoping the removal of mantels, doors and architraves etc had them repurposed with good intention.
The shearing shed it was double side grinder for sharpening shearing cutters and combs. The generator for the shearing shed and house. Paul I lived(as you may have known) not far from where you spent your childhood the electricity production in the latrobe Valley then to Geelong then to Hamilton then back to Willaura,Tatyoon Yalla-Y-Poora. On the farm we did not get electricity until the 1960's.
Hi Robert :-) Cheers mate and yes I do know mate :-) Glad you were able to give the info on the sharpening grinder. Amazing to think the pre 1960`s electricity was only from a simple generator if at all. Cheers for watching mate :-)
@urbexindigo5164 Paul, the house I live in ( family owned for over 80 years), the same type of fake tiles. The tile was put on in the 1970s over a corrugated iron roof.
Bonjour d'Occitanie J'ai beaucoup aimé le charriot, je ne connais que ceux qui ce trouve par chez moi qui sont plus adapté à transporté les bottes de pailles (maintenant c'est finit avec les balles rondes) je pense que les plafonds plus travaillés c'étaient pour les pièces d'accueils salle à manger et salon ainsi que le couloir la salle à manger avec son passe plat. Merci pour ce partage hors du temps, pour les feuilles de journaux elles ne sont pas de la même époque comme vous l'avez deviné. Comme elles ont presque la même coloration possible qu'elles aient été mis là à la même époque donc un peu plus tard. Dommage que vous n'ayez pas trouvé de conserves, ou des produits avec une étiquette lisible
She would have been one lovely home in its time. When they salvaged the door trims, the light switches might have been on the door frames. Not on the walls. Unless they were pull cord switches??? Sheering sheds havnt't changed much, just the shears have. Brings backs memories when i used to watch the shearers at my great uncles.
Very similar to the old girl I lived in in Warooka. Built in 1900. Survived the 1901 earthquake on the Yorke Peninsula. I think by memory it was about 6 on the Richter Scale
Wow bas4903, so cool hearing others experinces and recollections of the good old days. Tough folk who worked the land for sure, great to think back about. Cheers for watching :-)
There was nothing up north , the tropic landscape literal was nutrient deprived & inhaled everything , Ernestine Hill . . a tone just below audible. . the compact north , have to go back to rich those poor soils (if you took hunting & fishing , it's an old system north , the great northern savannah , you have to give back)
I think it would have been a really pretty little place and oppressed ceilings was so beautiful a wondering that room with no light fittings they might have just had lamps and probably the lights would have gone to the most important rooms which be the kitchen the dining room and possibly the hallway look forward to next Sunday 🐈
Loved this explore?would've been one hell of a working farm..how cute is that workers hut.Paul do u intend to publish a book one day with all the awesome photos u have?
Faux roof tiles.There was a piece at the front I was hoping you would flip over lol. We have them too. What a great old ghost farm/museum you found. Great video, Paul. Thanks!
What a proud and beautiful home with arches in the central hallway, beautiful medallions on the patterned ceilings. If it was a fairly large operation, might a foreman or manager used the little brick house?
In the shearing shed the section that had the electric motor would have had a diesel or petrol motor originally but when SWER (Single wire earth return) see early in video the power pole only has 1 cable to the pole came to the area they switched to electric power. The second belt ran the cutter discs for sharpening the shears.
Hi Peter :-) Cheers for that info mate, love hearing from people who can fill the blanks in I miss :-) More old farm homes on the way. Cheers for watching
Well Paul I can give you some info on that farm house it was built in the 1950 the last person that left the house in 1980 the missing tiles on the roof had been removed for a house extension on the owners other house 12 years ago the boys parents lived there years ago
Hi Mate :-) I guess you must be local to that area. :-) Thanks so much for filling in the blanks without mentioning names. It is always the questions in my mind like these ones. It does look as though the roofing was deliberately removed as you say. I prominent farm back in the day! :-)
Yes its very sad there is some very nice old farm houses it's a shame they have been let go but it's the way it is farmers buy more land and there not interested in the houses
I saw almost no evidence of modern technology, the times were tough for the wool trade after the synthetic materials were developed, and during the depression the price of wool crashed to poverty levels, making a living then was indeed a challenge.The folks who lived there were "Old Time Tough" as my Dad used to say.That station has that feel.
I would say that they removed all the metal conduit with the switches and power cable to sell the copper. The house has been stripped of any valuable materials.
This home and buildings and associated farm land would have been acquired by another farmer as either adjacent to or not far from his property. Thats the reason its abandoned so to speak.
I saw almost no evidence of modern technology, the times were tough for the wool trade after the synthetic materials were developed, and during the depression the price of wool crashed to poverty levels, making a living then was indeed a challenge.The folks who lived there were "Old Time Tough" as my Dad used to say.That station has that feel.
That paper had prices in pounds shillings and pence, that puts it pre 1966
Yes l noticed that, l was going to say the same thing 😊
The currency changed on the 14th of Feb. 1966
Definitely two different papers. Australia changed from £.s.d to the Dollar on 14th February 1966 and the UK changed from £.s.d to decimal currency on the 15th February 1971. I can still add and subtract in £.s.d as I was 15 when the UK changed currency.
Loved the house with a feature fireplace in each room and even the matching small building had a fireplace. They must have been quite wealthy, as so many of the buildings that match the house seem to have been built at the same time. The horse-drawn cart turns the whole place into an open air museum. I like to imagine the people working, the sounds of a busy farm and the fireplaces lit. Wish I could time travel!
Well spotted LWF :-) Definitely a prominent original farm of the area and family too I would think. :-)
Just by the evidence of the quality of the home, this was one of the more successful sheep/wool operations. To be alive back then!
Agree. Nice spot, quality farm.
Sheep or potatoes or shootings galahs for roadside cafe stew sale
There was a crushing famine in Finland in late 1600's when a summer did no show due to planetary affairs upstairs & crops failed , cockatoo stew would have been fine dining
In the shearing shed: That belt "driving something else", is driving a shearing comb sharpener. It would have had a large flat plate with sandpaper to sharpen the cutter combs on the hand-pieces (shears).
It would have originally had either petrol or diesel engine that has been replaced with an electric motor.
Yes, it's a grinder for sharpening shearers comb and cutter. That machine you fit two discs (abou 40cm 16 inch diameter), one each side, one fine sandpaper and the other course sandpaper. Paul commented no hand pieces on the shearing plant.They are attached to a rod hanging down.The rod has a large amount of movement to shear the sheep.
Most shearers had their own hand pieces. They had a universal fitting that every new wool shed they went to. So theirs hand pieces fitted to any. They are like large barbers' clippers.
I worked in shearing sheds when I was younger.
Obviously, they originally operated an electricity generator, and the Electricity Trust of South Australia put electricity on years later.
Cheers Roger! Great info, thanks heaps mate and for watching :-)
Thanks heaps for the great info Stephen :-) And for watching mate
I absolutely love the tin ceilings.
Just wishing the walls could talk! So many stories could be re-told & shared amongst newer generations of how life used to be back in the good ol' days.
The shearing shed was amazing to see. So much history.
Lovely old farm. Would have been beautiful in it's day up and running. Thank you for showing us. 🦘💚🤗🥰
That house could be restored.. I used to look for these places in NSW between 1988 to 1998. They were usually full of stuff, we would track down who owned them and offer to buy whatever was inside. 9 out of 10 owners were happy to sell. I really enjoyed doing it but I found and easier way to make a living in the building industry. Its fun reliving those times through you videos.
I agree and it would be amazing to see a family living there again! :-) Cheers for watching
I used to sigh at the end of each day, dear. Then I come home to find a new Indigo video…
Haha! I like it and it does seem fitting that song in the intro! Cheers! :-)
Urbex Indigo thanks for sharing this video with me about this Old farm homestead left to decay/Lots of outbuildings with original shearing shed and equipment this place must of been a nice farm way back in the day i really enjoyed it and i can't wait to see your next video my friend i am from the U.S.A and i gave you a thumbs up and shared you out on my community tab and God Bless and thanks again for another wonderful video.
These old stone built homes are brilliant. The old shearing shed very cool. Cheers mate.👍😎🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it mate, yep SA is iconic for their stone built homes, even in the suburbs. :-)
Another piece of history.... lost in time. Great explore as are all of your videos Paul. Thanks again
Glad you enjoyed it ClarkOVision :-)
This was once a lovely farm, I enjoyed watching 😊
All these old houses are so beautiful, so much detail, though no stained glass in this one, unless they were taken with the floors and mantels. What fascinates me, really, though, is how thick the walls always are. So amazing. Thanks for the explore again!!
That must have been a gorgeous home back in her Hey day. Although I don't live Australia, I did grow up in the 1970s. Definitely two different newspapers. Take care.
Paul, I have to say this was another great explorer with all the buildings. Thank you for your time and for sharing with us this old home.
Always a pleasure hanging out with you for a bit. " You beauty". You should make that phrase into a clothing line. Have a good one brother.
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Lovely old home. Built really well using the old methods. Thats why it still standing. People just aren't as smart these days. They dont have the intelligence it takes to upkeep these real homes.
Wow, I've never seen such a fancy tin bath! The only ones I've found have been legless and totally different simple shapes.
That's a perfectly beautiful tin bath 🤗💕
I did think the same Sandra about the bath, I thought it was kind of special and to be still sitting in the hut. Maybe the blacksmith and foremen stayed in there :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 the blacksmith shed was huge, I'd guess he fashioned that for his own use, obviously very talented! And worthy of his own private lodgings. Fantastic explore 😎 thanks for my viewing pleasure! I get excited about one aspect and forget the other delights/despairs along the way.
Look forward to every one before work on Sunday now 😁
Just imagine back in the day what this place would of been like big sheep farm wife cooking kids playing in the yard nice find
Another great find in an abandoned
house here and at one time was very
busy with shearing sheep and now
totally empty and abandoned just
sitting there rotting away i guess
the sheep business just played out
over the years, another great video
Thank You very much.🤠👍
That was one big operation! Love seeing these old farms. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed them cnilll2422, many more to come :-)
Hi Paul. Another amazing explore. Not much left, but the architecture of the main house is beautiful. Thank you. ❤
This was one of your most interesting rural exp;ores.
Cheers Deb, glad you enjoyed :-)
🌟Oh my gosh what a beautiful old gem I love it 🥰 so peaceful and beautiful in the countryside a perfect home. Full of history I’m sure. Shame that the floors were gone, love the wrap around veranda. Thank you so much again 😊❤x :-)
Glad you enjoyed it Megan! Cheers again for watching :-)
HI Paul ,the yellow tiles in the kitchen and bathroom looked like a tile sold in Australia late 1930s. I enjoyed this explore.
Hi Paul! Another great find. I bet that house was gorgeous back in the day. I look forward to your awesome adventures every weekend. Thanks for sharing.
9:42 My opinion is two different newspapers, by the sketches of the models and the style of the televisions in the first paper I'd say the first half of the 60's.
24:20 Good luck I've heard said.
34:53 I noticed a nice camera trick. 🙂👍
That is one well worn farmstead, I like to think the 1975 newspaper was placed after the place was vacated but then again, time flies fast for this old gas.
Thanks for the tour Paul, stayin tuned!
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G'day often wonder what makes people abandon workable land and a home with little effort could be kept in good liveable condition, Also the other belt ran to grinding wheel for sharpening the combs one the shearing hand pieces, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Cheers for that info Neil :-) And for watching
Loved the old shearing shed , Another one that my relatives may had shorn sheep in the day, Had his own crew, Neil McGinity, The Boss Shearer
It would be fantastic if they had been in that shed mate! Tough blokes shearers! :-)
I’d liked to have seen it in its heyday. It must have been busy and the home beautiful. Thanks Paul for another interesting explore💖👍🏻
A beautiful country homestead built colonial style where horse and cart used to take the bail of wool to where it had to go and because there was no electricity in the 1800's they had kerosene lanterns to see and a wood stove for cooking and now in todays world we take thing like that for granted I wouldn't mind going back to see what it was like back into the 1800's but Paul thanks for the video and see you in the next one
I too would love to go back to the 18001s and see it all happening! Cheers for watching :-)
I love the sheep shearing sheds when you find them!!!! That house is fantastic. I want to take one of those properties and rehab it, and keep the property intact. Can't remember which video- the one where the farm was huge and the lady had the tiered gardens in front? Yes, restore them!!!!- SDK
Really enjoyed that explore Paul. Such a stately looking home, but surprisingly few rooms inside for such a bold facade. The shearing shed would have been pretty flash in it's heyday. Three stands, would have been a hive of activity. As always, looking forward to the next one!
As for the room with no overhead light it was quite common for rooms in old farms to only have tall lamps in corners etc.
Thanks, Paul ... I agree with other comments that this was a grand home with the shearing shed size and the number of shearers stands showing it was a large and busy wool business. Here's hoping the removal of mantels, doors and architraves etc had them repurposed with good intention.
Cheers Ken! :-) Yep big busy old farm back in the day :-)
The shearing shed it was double side grinder for sharpening shearing cutters and combs. The generator for the shearing shed and house. Paul I lived(as you may have known) not far from where you spent your childhood the electricity production in the latrobe Valley then to Geelong then to Hamilton then back to Willaura,Tatyoon Yalla-Y-Poora.
On the farm we did not get electricity until the 1960's.
Hi Robert :-) Cheers mate and yes I do know mate :-) Glad you were able to give the info on the sharpening grinder. Amazing to think the pre 1960`s electricity was only from a simple generator if at all. Cheers for watching mate :-)
@urbexindigo5164 Paul, the house I live in ( family owned for over 80 years), the same type of fake tiles. The tile was put on in the 1970s over a corrugated iron roof.
Bonjour d'Occitanie
J'ai beaucoup aimé le charriot, je ne connais que ceux qui ce trouve par chez moi qui sont plus adapté à transporté les bottes de pailles (maintenant c'est finit avec les balles rondes) je pense que les plafonds plus travaillés c'étaient pour les pièces d'accueils salle à manger et salon ainsi que le couloir la salle à manger avec son passe plat. Merci pour ce partage hors du temps, pour les feuilles de journaux elles ne sont pas de la même époque comme vous l'avez deviné. Comme elles ont presque la même coloration possible qu'elles aient été mis là à la même époque donc un peu plus tard. Dommage que vous n'ayez pas trouvé de conserves, ou des produits avec une étiquette lisible
She would have been one lovely home in its time. When they salvaged the door trims, the light switches might have been on the door frames. Not on the walls. Unless they were pull cord switches???
Sheering sheds havnt't changed much, just the shears have. Brings backs memories when i used to watch the shearers at my great uncles.
Cheers Prue! Yes although my parents were never on the land I had many friends who were and we hung around the shearers sheds watching too :-)
Very similar to the old girl I lived in in Warooka. Built in 1900. Survived the 1901 earthquake on the Yorke Peninsula. I think by memory it was about 6 on the Richter Scale
Wow bas4903, so cool hearing others experinces and recollections of the good old days. Tough folk who worked the land for sure, great to think back about. Cheers for watching :-)
Nice explore here would have once stood a grand old place packed full of features of its day. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, MM : )
That newspaper with the TV adverts etc was from 1965.
Great find.
35:11 There may be no light but I can see the holes drilled where one once was.
It probably was an amazing home in its day....
It almost looks like the shearing barn was used much longer than the house itself.
I remember those , TV rentals up in Darwin . . things have changed a lot
There was nothing up north , the tropic landscape literal was nutrient deprived & inhaled everything , Ernestine Hill . . a tone just below audible. . the compact north , have to go back to rich those poor soils (if you took hunting & fishing , it's an old system north , the great northern savannah , you have to give back)
Cool find
At 10:35 that news paper would have to be at or before 1966 because the prices are in the old system.
I look at property in your country.
Looks pretty expensive like California.
Lots of cool old Houses going because of high prices. Nice video
I think it would have been a really pretty little place and oppressed ceilings was so beautiful a wondering that room with no light fittings they might have just had lamps and probably the lights would have gone to the most important rooms which be the kitchen the dining room and possibly the hallway look forward to next Sunday 🐈
As someone who has worked in a shearing shed, that was super cool. your right too about where they would have sharpened their gear :)
Glad you some connection to the old shed Wendy, tough folks work, working the land and livestock :-)
34:48 Looks like the aftermath of a tornado.
It sure did mate :-) Cheers for watching
Loved this explore?would've been one hell of a working farm..how cute is that workers hut.Paul do u intend to publish a book one day with all the awesome photos u have?
Yes I intend for sure at some point :-)
Faux roof tiles.There was a piece at the front I was hoping you would flip over lol. We have them too. What a great old ghost farm/museum you found. Great video, Paul. Thanks!
What a proud and beautiful home with arches in the central hallway, beautiful medallions on the patterned ceilings. If it was a fairly large operation, might a foreman or manager used the little brick house?
Arches are old school symbolism , lots to unpack there
I LOVE VIDEO BRAVO🏘🏘🏘🏘 👍👍👍😺😺😺😺👋👋👋👋
Thankyou! :-)
Another beautiful old home great video Paul 👍🙂
Glad you enjoyed it guys :-)
In the shearing shed the section that had the electric motor would have had a diesel or petrol motor originally but when SWER (Single wire earth return) see early in video the power pole only has 1 cable to the pole came to the area they switched to electric power.
The second belt ran the cutter discs for sharpening the shears.
Hi Peter :-) Cheers for that info mate, love hearing from people who can fill the blanks in I miss :-) More old farm homes on the way. Cheers for watching
Nice one
Cheers for watching Anna :-)
I'v been thinking about it . . perhaps old church style copper roofs the go to alleviate the depredations below
Saw employment adverts on the paper. Curious about what jobs were available back in the mid '70s.
Paper pre 4 February 1966, Measures, weights, for timber cutting changed ,1975 to cubic metres from super feet, Was a lovely home in its day , ❤🤠🦘🦘🇦🇺
Great job Romeo, well spotted mate :-)
Well Paul I can give you some info on that farm house it was built in the 1950 the last person that left the house in 1980 the missing tiles on the roof had been removed for a house extension on the owners other house 12 years ago the boys parents lived there years ago
Hi Mate :-) I guess you must be local to that area. :-) Thanks so much for filling in the blanks without mentioning names. It is always the questions in my mind like these ones. It does look as though the roofing was deliberately removed as you say. I prominent farm back in the day! :-)
Yes its very sad there is some very nice old farm houses it's a shame they have been let go but it's the way it is farmers buy more land and there not interested in the houses
@@JeffKirvan yep, absorbed into larger farms and pretty much left to rot. Thats why I like keeping them alive on video. :-) Cheers again mate 🙂
I feel very sorry for the old shearers they would not had belts to help there back the pain they would have been in
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Why the cement footing jetting out from the fireplace?
Perhaps termites. South Australia, the electricity poles always metal concrete filled.
The TVs in the paper are early 60s to mid 60s seeing as the ads are in pounds pre decimal currency in 1966.
Its to bad someone stripped the place but the DEKA was really cool 😎👍
What is the song you use in your introduction, I love it, please let me know
Hi Tonya 😁 here it is ruclips.net/video/-YyQqU08SDI/видео.html
I saw almost no evidence of modern technology, the times were tough for the wool trade after the synthetic materials were developed, and during the depression the price of wool crashed to poverty levels, making a living then was indeed a challenge.The folks who lived there were "Old Time Tough" as my Dad used to say.That station has that feel.
Cheers Gary :-) Yep tough is the perfect word I reckon mate. Great to think back to those days and admire how they did it all. Cheers :-)
I would say that they removed all the metal conduit with the switches and power cable to sell the copper.
The house has been stripped of any valuable materials.
Why would there be seashells on the floor in the 'guest house'?
Hmm good question lol :-)
This home and buildings and associated farm land would have been acquired by another farmer as either adjacent to or not far from his property. Thats the reason its abandoned so to speak.
I saw almost no evidence of modern technology, the times were tough for the wool trade after the synthetic materials were developed, and during the depression the price of wool crashed to poverty levels, making a living then was indeed a challenge.The folks who lived there were "Old Time Tough" as my Dad used to say.That station has that feel.