Greetings fellow Foxies,
While scouring the countryside for titbits of information to satisfy my readers, I often come across remnant sheds, farm houses and machinery that are slowly returning to the soil.
It is clear to me that a BIG AUSTRALIA with megacities of multicultural people who have no interest in the heritage of a depopulated rural area is inevitable.
I am fascinated by rural history; People led a tough but usually rewarding life. I am posting images of places I find on Google Photos to leave a record of their existence.
This link contains images of the abandoned Virgo family farmhouse south east of Highbury. Private property.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QeeQKxvgjZj1N6w33
The house, probably built in the early 20th century is mainly weatherboard with a corrugated iron roof and printed metal ceilings. It would have been hot in summer and freezing in winter, but a great advance on earlier mud batt and mud brick places. Earliest dwellings consisted of calsomine painted hessian walls with a tin or brush roof. Imagine the privations of an English wife who came to this with only a camp oven for cooking and water carted from a nearby soak.
I was privileged to find historic undergarments!
While scouring the countryside for titbits of information to satisfy my readers, I often come across remnant sheds, farm houses and machinery that are slowly returning to the soil.
It is clear to me that a BIG AUSTRALIA with megacities of multicultural people who have no interest in the heritage of a depopulated rural area is inevitable.
I am fascinated by rural history; People led a tough but usually rewarding life. I am posting images of places I find on Google Photos to leave a record of their existence.
This link contains images of the abandoned Virgo family farmhouse south east of Highbury. Private property.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QeeQKxvgjZj1N6w33
The house, probably built in the early 20th century is mainly weatherboard with a corrugated iron roof and printed metal ceilings. It would have been hot in summer and freezing in winter, but a great advance on earlier mud batt and mud brick places. Earliest dwellings consisted of calsomine painted hessian walls with a tin or brush roof. Imagine the privations of an English wife who came to this with only a camp oven for cooking and water carted from a nearby soak.
I was privileged to find historic undergarments!