Abandoned in the 70`s this grand old homestead has layers of history everywhere.
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Hey house lovers and explorers! This video is one of my favorites as this old farm homestead sits now all lonely up on a hill as a marker in time. It is a very large old original farm house with many layers of history as you will see. The actual home was built back in the 1800`s along with it`s several stone built out building and sheds. An amazing example of South Australian farming life which seems to have ceased in the 1970`s. I meet another little shingleback Lizard too :-) Take the tour with me and help me figure out the timelines for this old gem and it`s former occupants. Hope you enjoy. Cheers for watching :-)
The enclosed part of the veranda is called a "Sleep out", it's where the inhabitants would sleep on very hot summer nights....
This area of Australia looks like the
areas of Southwest Texas and parts
of Southwest Oklahoma which is
where I am with very little trees and
empty farm and ranch houses empty
for many years and looks similar.
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Cheers Roger :-)
This was a great tour. We have an abandoned farm in our family’s estate. It’s been in the family since the 1840’s. The whole house was last renovated in the 1940’s. My great great grandmother stayed there for five years after gggrandpa passed away. She sold all the stock, sacked all the workers and stayed with only her house maid. It was vacated and has sat untouched since. 150,000 acres. Way way past Cobar. The whole property and everything on it, is National Trust. We can’t even pick up broken beer bottles from the 1930’s. Absolutely nothing can be touched. It’s patrolled by helicopter weekly. The whole house is incredible. You can hear the voices of the past from the walls. These old properties all had Comm rooms as well.
Thanks for your effort
Interesting story Lisa, would love to see some photos
Absolutely incredible! ... and yet another example of ridiculous Government policy GUARANTEEING that your family's farm will rot into the earth! ... You can't even touch it? ...
They call it "preserving history" for heritage reasons, and yet... if you can't even maintain it, it's a given that'll it be gone forever soon enough... and those patrolling helicopters will be protecting nothing but a crumbled, rotting mess of old stone and timber... 😪
Make it make sense.
I just love these old houses they are so beautiful. It is so sad that they are let go like that.
I fixed one up, it was a much bigger job than the big job it looks like. I would do it again if I wasn't married.
@@I00kingin That is nice. I wish I could afford to buy one and repair it.
I'd much rather see them slowly returning to the earth like this than being demolished by indifferent owners or developers.
@@I00kingin.
@@davidbaker5185 what bums me out and I see it all the time is after somebody dies who had kept up his/her home: 1 somebody rifles thru the place looking for valuables leaving a mess on the ground. 2 somebody strips infrastructure components. 3 somebody vandalizes the place.
When you see a sealed building that gets to degrade naturally it is the beautiful process you describe.
Sometimes I wish we could go back in time to see some of these homes in their glory days.
I was in high school when those readers digest were printed, memories. 🥰
Hello Paul. This was a fantastic find the house was unbelievable if only walls could talk. It's a real shame they didn't take photos of the insides of these grand old homes. I'm glad that we are at an age the we can appreciate the beauty and hard work gone in to building these grand old homes The old sheds were also very interesting and what they were used for and I loved the cold store. The home that my grandparents lived in had a cold store under the house and to gain entry was also from outside. The film you took of the land around the house was beautiful and the plowed fields gave an idea of the isolation of the farm.
I was going to comment on the explore almost exactly how you did! They put a lot of hard work into gathering and then building the house and outbuildings out of field stones. I very much doubt the homes they knock up in a hurry these days will be around in a hundred plus years! Loved the parrot chorus too!🦘🥰🥴
A wonderful old farm house and certainly not beyond repair. We restored an old building, circa, 1850’s. Once you start restoring you find lots of tradies with skills,and if you’re sensitive to the building it is a very satisfying accomplishment; saved for the next century if the developers don’t plunder one’s efforts in the pursuit of $$
It would be amazing to see this old homestead restored. Glad you restored and old gem Elizabeth, well done. 🙂 Thanks for watching 👍😁
Love the stone and brick if the home along with the veranda. I can imagine bringing your cup out early in the morning and watching the day break.
I'm an American and I so enjoyed your video. It reminds me of books I've read about Australia.
Thanks you! Glad you are enjoying :-)
That was a fascinating explore. Lots of craftsmanship in the structures, all made of stone. I try to picture how the meals would have been prepared on that stove, and just life in general. The chimneys on the house were really cool too.
Hello Paul. This has to be one of the coolest places you've shown us. Loving these farm houses. Thank you and take care. ❤
Great explore Paul! The raised concrete blocks in the outer sheds may have mounted a 32 volt electricity generator. One of the sheds looked to have been a single stand milking shed. Plenty of potential to restore that old homestead with deep pockets and a lot of hard work! Sadly it will probably continue to deteriorate given it's location. Looking forward to your next video.
Just a gorgeous old house. Wish I had 1 like it.
Its wild to think of all the work that was put in to create that home/out buildings etc and now its abandoned. Makes me wonder who was the last to drive out and what they may have been thinking. Thank you
Me too 🙄 📢 🙄 ✌️
I think about that a lot with run down buildings. Once someone may have been stressed to build it on a deadline, possibly something was damaged in the building of it which made the owner annoyed. Now they sit decrepit, all that stress for nothing.
@@jameswozny1997 sad really
It’s a Sunbeam Mixmaster, I have one in the kitchen & it works! 😂
How beautifully the house sits up on the hill silhouetted against the sky. The complete veranda still with its curved metal cover looks a great spot to sit as the sun goes down. I really appreciate that you note elements of the house that help place it in its historic period. It helps to imagine, not only its proud origins but the generations that continued to add another layer to pass on to the next. Great find! Thank you.
It's those little features like the curve to the roof folks did in the old days did to make their homes special. Dad put that into the category of "gingerbread" a bit of fancy on or in the house to make it pretty.
The curve on the verandah roof is called a Bullnose .
When my older sister got married in the 70’s. They were given the old family homestead. It was 100 years old then. My love of the old places grew from then. As a child of 10. I still remember walking into it and seeing the beautiful old dinning room table and chairs that could sit 10 people.
A doctor brought it off them. And it was saved along with help from the heritage trust.
Saving of these old homes is a must.
It’s our heritage. They need to be saved.
Thank you for this beautiful walk back in time.
Perth wa 😊
Thanks Penny 🙂 I'm so glad this old homestead brought back fond memories and that your old home was saved. It would be fantastic to see more like this saved . Many More old homes to come. Cheers for the support 🙂
Love the old architecture!
I'm a solid plasterer by trade !
They don't build them like they used to!
Cheers Stephen, glad you have the skills to do plastering, these old plaster ceilings are always amazing :-)
What a grand old dame! Thank you for getting and sharing a record of these places before they disappear. Tis a little sad sometimes that they have been abandoned. Maybe a wealthy retiree might see your video and be inspired to take on a restoration. 😊
This old girl was absolutely beautiful. So much character even after all this time. It’s places like that I really do wish I could save. I would say the horse equipment was driving reins for the horse and buggy - they were typically long like that to account for the space between the horses and the drivers.
I was thinking that maybe they held meetings in the house of some sort? I believe it wasn’t unusual for the neighbours who were far from a church or meeting place to have a ‘service’ at someone’s house. Would explain the chairs.
Thank you for sharing with us - your videos are a definite highlight for me. Take care 🙂
Hi Suzi :-) Great assessment and I agree :-) Being a larger home they may have had the vote to hold the services for surrounding farms :-) Cheers
@@urbexindigo5164 Hey there! I like thinking about people living in those houses, sometimes invent whole lives in my head as to what they did etc 😆 it’s nice to think of the houses being loved. Thanks for the reply! 😊
seeing the pulldown switch gave me a flashback that came with a musty scent
Thanks, Paul. I know we can't save all of our history, but it saddens me that, in its day, such a high quality build has been left to rot. I'm sure I couldn't plough and harrow that nearby paddock without wondering what might have been!
Cheers Ken :-)
There was something about this particular home that got me. It's my favourite. Fabulous videos as always and love the way you look out for the lizards.👍
Thanks Anna :-) glad you enjoyed
Love this explore Paul. Our ancestors came to this part of the world and we can see it in their stone masonry and giving farming a go in a harsh but beautiful environment. If only those walls could talk! It has a feel of a hard working generations of family. Houses are not made like this anymore. I’m sure it was full of love and laughter too. Thanks mate.
I have a good imagination. I'm sure some of the agriculture practices were similar to the Western United States where I am (Northern California).
I think early on the family was young and strong. Their hard work paid off so they could invest in bringing the homestead up to date.
They were probably well networked. Lots of entertaining. The lady of the house got her redo which she had been waiting to have for many years. She probably had daughters to share that with.
I can see that dining room serving Sunday meals with everyone in their Sunday best. I can see special dinners with other ranchers/farmers making deals. Sharing the latest greatest methods to use.
I have enjoyed watching your explores over the years. I've learned about your architectural periods.
I especially like the federation period. I like the little Victorian accents added. The arches put up in the high ceiling hall way are breath taking when intact.
I love to explore similar periods over here. Thanks for getting out there to do this😊
Im always intrigued by the kitchens. That was a way cool stove. Loved the green. Great explore, these old farmsteads in your country fascinate me. Thanks for taking us along! Great job!
My Mom was old enough to cook on one! It was not always so special whenyouhad to clean it, but it did cook delicious food, and many had a hot water reservoir and a dish warmer! I have the old, slightly darkened dish my Grandma used in the dish warmer to keep potatoes hot. It's not pretty, but it's precious.
I love how they used a lot of tin makes them last much longer
She's an old Aussie gem. If she could be renovated it'd be my absolute dream country home ❤
My dad told me these stone houses are part of german settlers in sth oz in particular, thick walls keeping the cool in and heat out in summer and vice versa in winter. The cellars were built to store food and keeping it cooler and long time hence digging down into the ground. Just similar to my grandparents home and others in europe where I lived as a child. I love these old houses and stayed in one visiting family in sth Australia. It stayed so cool in summer while we were there. I love exploring anything old. I enjoy watching these types of videos. I remember exploring as a kid in my nanas attic in the seventies and they were huge and you could stand up in them I explored old thing back from the very early 1900’s. it was like a treasure hunt looking at things and touching them or reading things. Thank you, you brought back memories of childhood adventures and it fascinates me to this day, even driving in the country and going past old buildings makes me want to jump out of the car and have a look, wondering around these places. Thank you again, hope you have many more exploration adventures.
Big rooms for that time period. Thanks Paul great place.
If you listen carefully at 3.23/4 as you approach the front door, there is quite a jaunty knock pattern...'tap, tap, ta, tap, tap....tap, tap'....almost inviting you to do the same 😁
I heard it right as I read your comment 😂
3:23
😆 tap tap.
My bird added it after I replayed a few times 🦜
Wow this is a old gem mate definitely a old beauty there that sunbeam mix master was classic 1960s mum used to make her cakes with on of these. I think there was a attachment you could put on the top where you could grind meats and also a blend attachment. The old oven love these old stoves can smell the bread being made hey. Loved the club sofa too definitely a cool of gem mate cheers.
Mix master! I was meaning to say that :-) I have come across a few in Mums house mate, and many others thing from the same era!! Cheers again mate :-)
As a kiwi I found this fascinating- familiar to our old homesteads but obviously the climate differences generated quite different homes and out buildings. New Zealand built for cold and rain.
The house definitely 1800s with a 1920-30's update. The transom windows above the entry doors were done up into the first part of the 20th century. Completely agree it should be saved. The leather and chains in the shed look very similar to what would have been used for horses and bulls to pull plows in fields, and also similar to wagon gear that horses and cattle; yes cattle was used to also pull wagons. Stirrups would have been saddles. Australian and American ranch saddles were pretty identical, with the exception of the Australian Brush Stock/Stockman riding saddle its crossed between English Riding and American Ranch. Those are some cool old bottles.
Cheers Tommy :-) Great comments, thanks for the info, I was hoping someone could fill in a few of these questions. Glad you know your stuff and can enjoy these old homes and the old relics left behind :-)
I LOVE this house!!!!!! And this property. Those stone buildings are spectacular- the amount of work that went into those are stunning. It sounded like you found a snake during the house explore. Those bottles need to be in a museum. Thanks for the explore- great job as always!!! The lizard was adorable- SDK
Cheers again for watching SDK :-)
You see these old places and you could imagine all of the folks that passed through, the generations raised on them!
Readers digest was always a much anticipated delivery at our house,,, you used to find em in waiting rooms everywhere. Excellent upload as always mate .
Nice old home
Hi . Dave here .The first little corrugated shed was the 32volt lighting plant shed with the concrete block for the engine and generator and smaller block was for the water tank for the engine. The other thing you thought was a piece shearing gear is a morse drill you can see the hand wheel on top with auto advance ratchet . As a 9 year old it was my job to run the lighting plant every night we knew the 240v was coming so the old batteries were not going to be replaced. The lights were not very bright without the generator . I hope this may be a help to you. All the best Dave.
Cheers for the great info Dave. I'm always learning new stuff from you. guys in the comments. Just amazing to think back at how these old farms and homes operated 👍😊
I thought the house was run on 32V too until I saw the 240V wall mounted radiator in the last shed.
fantastic old houses ,i appreciate seeing these old houses
What a beautiful old girl. When you were in the loungeroom and the mirror in the mantle it looked like there was a smiling face in it.
I would so LOVE to save those fowlers vacola jars in the kitchen, they'd still be able to be used. Such a shame they are left unused.
It’s great to see you have respect for our history and search through these pages of Australian history and not touch anything but thoroughly look through these gems and take us with you thanks again
Scott from NSW
Do you think he would show on camera that he pockets things?
Really enjoyed that episode Paul you could feel the history. Needs rescuing and preserving X
What a gem . I love these outback explores. Great work ❤
Easy 50 years Abandoned. Great find and great intro👍
It's a shame to see these nice old homes just rotting it kind of breaks your heart right
The buldings here are very similar to some I have seen at Minda Inc Brighton South Australia. I believe they are also old farm houses. They have been restored and are amazing.
Would have been a gorgeous home back in the day. So sad it’s going to ruins now😢
Thanks for a trip back in time so interesting
The "egg beater" you are referring to at the start is actually a mixmaster.
I often wonder if these old relics will outlive humanity 🤔
If I were down under where you are, if I saw that old stove I'd be shipping it to NC USA
I bought a run down place only smaller in cottage form for its ability to be restored in southern Flinders Ranges. Very similar aspects.
Those metal "rails" are fence pieces that often hold in smaller herded farm animals like sheep and or goats. Theyre used in locations to keep the flock or herd close to for either sheering or holding for loading onto transport. I could be wrong, but theyre valuable, so they would have been prought inside to prevent them from being stolen.
Think she needs another overhaul Paul !! Love these old farm houses. I’m thinking 1800 and definitely had a overhaul. Absolutely brilliant !! Thank you 🙏
Would be amazing to see it brought back all nice and fresh sitting up on that hill hey Sue :-) Thanks for watching
@@urbexindigo5164 100% Paul 🙌
It's typical 1870s/80s
Love this beautiful old home. I also love your interest and care for these old properties and the respect you show them. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Cheers Sharon 😊 glad you are enjoying them too 👍😁
This is a channel I’m glad to have stumbled across. As a student of Australian history, architectural styles, and changes over time, it’s refreshing to see your obvious knowledge of features often overlooked. Really enjoyable, thank you!
Cool old roomy house. Bet it was lively in its heyday. Love these old Explores.
Those railings look like temporary holding pens for sheep while waiting to be sheared or vaccinated and tagged. Jut my thoughts. Or they could be for blocking off a road and with all those chairs maybe this was a meeting place for sheep farmers .
Could be used for different tings
still loving your country explores hope there are more coming
I grew up in a house like this the veranda is marvellous
Amazing find. Back in the old days they put out a lot of hard work to make a living. Look at all these years have gone past and even though it’s in rough shape right now it’s still standing. Like you said with some hard work, it could be saved. Thanks again for another great video.
love this house
The house and sheds were built to last back then; would have been sweet to see it new when the first family moved in. And the view! I wonder how many miles till you get to the horizon ? Thanks again Paul for sharing another interesting explore. 👍🏻😊
Very cool old house. I've always been curious about the stoves in old Australian homes. Did they just put them in old fireplaces? It just seems odd to have a stove in an alcove. I enjoy having these tours of parts of Oz from my recliner. 🇨🇦
The alcoves were for safety. If the stove was free-standing in the kitchen, it would have been both a fire hazard and a safety hazard. Often the old stoves also had a water heating sleeve attached to the fire box, so that hot water was readily available. That, plus the burning wood and the super-heated metal of the stove, were all dangerous. Placing them in brick lined alcoves and with stone or brick floors helped prevent accidental fires and protected those using them from burns.
@@01baia thanks. Did they evolve from old fire places too?
@@NorthwindPeace yes sometimes. There was an old lady, a family friend, who lived in a basic home in the bush in Victoria not far from us. She had an open fire in her kitchen with pots hanging on wrought iron stands. That could have easily been updated to a combustion stove.
❤ it and would love to live there!!! 😢
It's likely full of termites by now which is hazardous to your health to live in. But yes I felt the urge to go & clean out that kitchen & fire up that old wood stove myself ! 😂
Don't know if I am right but this place looks like a place on the west side of the road heading south out of Ceduna (?). Absolutely beautiful old place and so sad that it is no longer used. Would have been quite something in its prime.
Love these old joints, Brilliant.
Need to find one of these and just move in..,
Nice find, thanks for the clip.
What a find, an abandoned 1970's time capsule farm house with outside wash room for the farm hands, laundry, outside toilet-dunny. Nice old built in cooker-stove. lots of fallen roof panels
I think what surprised me were the bright colors used. Turquoise, pale blue, butter yellow, pale pink - all lovely bright colors which would have been really great in the heat. The iron roof would have been punishing though. The HEAT from that! Pity solar heating wasn’t thought of then. You wonder if that poor old house is beyond saving now. Perhaps it would be a cool project for someone as a holiday home? How could someone leave a home to rot? Puzzles me.
Great show mate
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My grandparents had a farm house just like this in South Australia. It is still lived in by a family member and is well cared for.
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What a cool old house! The stone walls and the original wood ceilings really show some of the history. I wish walls could talk, there's so much they could tell us. Thank you for the video!!
Cheers Vicki :-)
This homestead just has such a warm, happy family feel about it. Shes still beautiful.
I bet a lot went on in a day there.
I'm facinated by the ornate ceiling rosettes I see somtimes surrounding a plain old light socket with a bare bulb, maybe there was a fancy light shade at one time.
Thanks for the tour Paul, I love these farmstead explores!
Cheers! 🤠👍
Def would of had a fancy light shade John. Cheers again mate :-)
Hi Paul I lived in a very old house that had that same ceiling around 1880's love this old house
🌟Hi Paul, wow another outback gem just beautiful love love love it, full of history and a story to tell. its definatley on my bucket list to visit. Thank you so much again. 😊❤️🌟x
A great old home , a grand one at that though given its current situation it might not survive that long but back then they did built homes to last longer , as an avid bottle collector I would have definitely saved those old bottles and jars in the kitchen. Thanks for an exciting journey back in long lost time.
that farmstead must have been a beaut in its prime. I would guess at three generations, but without knowing the land-hold history the 1890s to the early 1950s.Thick walls are an indication of stone work or rubble filled construct. Stone outbuildings are a very labor intensive style. what an old charmer it was. Cheers.
Beautiful... ... it looks like one we saw on the Eyre peninsula but we saw so many of these homestead homes abandoned in SA it was very sad.... thanks ...
That was fascinating. Thanks. I appreciated your insights into the various periods and styles. I always want to restore when I see these places. Cheers.
You have lots of birds there and love to hear them. Nice property
Nice old late 1700's to mid 1800 with a few adjustments from 1900 to mid 1920's judging from the switches, super old beauty. well done mate
That's late 1800s.
Loved this one, especially when you talk about how to identify eras through types of architecture I find it fascinating and learn so much.
Love the history that you can deduce from looking at this old place. The stones that were used to make the walls... that old stove.... it is fascinating. Thanks for finding, filming and sharing.
All that pink and blue/green paint reminds me of the stuff my grandparents used in Victoria, around the 1960? I guess.
Glad you enjoyed 🙂👍 yes those colours were a popular revamping option in old homes around the 60's Cheers 😊
Always enjoy these Russell Coite vids.....
Beautiful. Id buy & restore, live there myself until I passed & it was abandoned again
Thanks for taking me with you on this excellent look through. I come from mid north South Australia and am familiar with these types of old places in childhood when they were in better nick and lived in.
Totally love old homes, I always imagine the stories it could tell and the families it protected under its roof.
I loved the blue federation ceiling rose and the shiny wallpaper on the ceiling and the black glazed art deco fire place 😊.
Funnily enough my new 1983 build home has cedar stained ceilings. So some things continue with and in time. I move in on the 15th of May and can't wait. 😁
The heart is where the home is. 💗💕🏠💗🙏
Have a wonderful day everyone 😊
Watching from Utah in the states . What a wonderful old place !!! Such a shame that it's abandoned . 💖
My nana had the mixmaster when I was a kid so 70s for sure
Glad to hear you again😂😂😅
Urbex Indigo thanks for sharing this video with me about Abandoned in the 70`s this grand old homestead has layers of history everywhere. this was a very interesting find my friend i really enjoyed this video and thanks for taking your time to make this video you have ahared with me i am FROM THE U.S.A and i always will show support your your youtube channel and God Bless and i can't wait to see your next video.
@323 the door knock ! Anyone else get a feeling ?
That knock was very playful too, the good old friendly knock sequence. I only noticed it when watching back the footage. The timing was perfect 👍😁
Another gem that oven just beautiful such huge room thanks again Paul for another great video 😀😀😀
Love this old house. I could see myself having coffee, looking out over land. The thick walls would have kept the house cooler in summer & warmer in winter. The old wood stove reminded me of when I lived in a small town, looking after different farms. Some places didn’t have running water & I had to use a outhouse. It would have been enclosed & had a hole on a bench. It would have been about six feet deep. After using it, ashes would be poured down the hole to keep it from stinking. Yes reading material would have been provided. It was interesting to cook on the stove, & the water Reservoir was great for washing up. The women back then had to work harder than we did. Cooking, laundry & cleaning were much harder. We can’t complain. Women & men have it so much easier now, with modern technology.
Hi Lynne 🙂 great comments. It would be great to see this old home restored and indeed sit out and gaze over the lands. The old outhouses are one thing people don't miss I think hey?!!! Haha 👍😁
Great find beautiful old home keep u the good explores & stay safe Paul