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I can't believe it. We been miles and miles and I haven't shown you a single abandoned house on the trip ... had better fix that up. Here you go. Somewhere after Binnaway and before Gulgong where we went to the bakery for lunch.
Abandoned like a naughty school-girl. There's something captivating about these old empty homes .... which were most probably family homes .... A hive of activity and a comfortable place where family nestled in together.
In the morning we went out to see the radio telescope 20 or so kms out of town. On another wayfaring trip we visited the radio telescope at Parkes but this one is an array of dishes on a long track that can act like one big dish.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
and this is a beauty too. How charming it would have been in its day :D)
ReplyDeleteAbandoned like a naughty school-girl. There's something captivating about these old empty homes .... which were most probably family homes .... A hive of activity and a comfortable place where family nestled in together.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame it's been let go. I bet it could tell a lot of stories.
ReplyDeleteLovely decay shot! I love how the manmade structure got the colours of the surrounding nature.
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