Abandoned Homestead in the Australian Outback
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Join us as we explore this Fantastic Farmhouse with a twist!
We love South Australia as it has some of the best Derelict and Abandoned buildings.
We estimate this home has been unoccupied for quite a number of years.
Sit back, grab something cold and Enjoy.
Mick and Ange
I immediately recognised this homestead. Friends of ours used to live on this station, not in this home, but the other home closer to the shearing shed. They were the last occupants to live at the this location. I sent him the link to your video. He said he has lots of fond memories inside this home, and that your video was hard to watch. I personally was last there in the late 90's. It was abandoned then. I remember that we commented, at the time, that the home was quite solid and wouldn't take much work to be able to move in. Of course 23 plus years later, it looks the same, but might need a bit more work now. I am looking a photo of me, standing in that pool. Great video.
I used to live in SA and love these old homes- do you know why the place was abandoned and why they've not let anyone fix it up?
@@Ninsidhetoo far from woolies
Families and life is complicated. Not everything runs to plan.
How can we get in touch? Would like to find out a little more about the property. Cheers
@@HillSummitHomesteadI'm sure everyone wants it but someones family owns it mate cheers Goodluck searching
Makes my heart bleed, living in a shed and trying our best to make it a home for us and our three kids and then seeing a beautiful homestead site with a building that can be renovated into a comfortable family home, as most of the hard backbreaking work has been done.
Almost want to cry when I see this.
Keep going strong Sis you're doing a great job, one day it'll be the good old days to your children.
Find the property, check the owner of the title contact them ask if they would let you live there n maintain it in leu of any rent
So many would jump at the chance
Go there and move in
@@sprucemoose8476 that would be theft
@@countrybns ty
These properties need to be protected and maintained by the national trust . This house would be stunning if renovated. Thank you for showing us .... im a proud South Australian and we have great history here in Australia 🇦🇺 💙
National trust should be dismantled, they are a joke.
I agree we in Australia are no where near patriotic enough to our country and our past
We need to be mate , I am .
My family immigrated to SA in 1839. They lived on homesteads like that. It’s such a shame to see the neglected ones. It would be a lifelong dream to restore one back to its glory. 😊
Yes that's a reno for someone for sure!
Many years ago I had an Uncle and his family living on a station in NSW, the station was/is Coombie Stn via Roto. The original homestead was built in the 1800s from stone and brick. By the 1960s the homestead had deteriorated to the point that it was not used.A few years ago I stumbled onto a Web site that was showing resurrected old homes and the Coombie Homestead was featured, much to my pleasure the new owners had renovated the old place to its former glory. Kudos to the owners of Coombie Homestead and to others who do similar restorations.
Great story 👍
Thank you for sharing. That's awesome! 🤩👍
Stunning old homestead. Such a shame its just left .I'd move in tomorrow emagin the peace an quiet.
I'll come with you
I don’t understand why we spend millions, if not billions on referendums etc, instead of preserving History like this?
Because people are more important than things.
@@wiretamer5710 yes! Indeed! that is why lets waist billions for useless referendum and keep people out of homes, hospitals, etc.
@@wiretamer5710 If only the Austrlian Government had the same sentiments as you. They don't give a crap about anyone, only themselves and the almighty dollar.
We don't understand it either 🤔
@@wiretamer5710 a devise racist referendum - so happy that 60% had the sense to vote NO to racism.
What memories! I remember the high ceilings, the design of the bath and sinks, the ornate ceilings, the doors, the intricate brick work and even a secure fence surrounding the property - and all still standing today. It is the modern additions that are no longer standing. Gosh, what happened to our builders - nowadays the ceilings are low, you roast or freeze depending on the weather, you can put your hand through most walls in these so-called modern houses, and they too cheap to even erect a fence around the property, let alone living right on top of your neighbours! Bring back those good old days.
ceilings are lower these days less space to heat or cool .
The rings around the pool were for ropes for bathers to hang onto for safety given the depth of the pool. Additionally, the ropes would sag down between the rings and would be used as a foot hold to climb in and out of the pool instead of having to swim back to the pool stairs. I also suspect a cover would have covered the pool to keep dust and crap out of the pool and to minimise water loss through evaporation.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Just for a cover
You'll probably find that swimming pool is a bore bath, imagine that, having your own bore bath or mineral bath, magic !!!! Seeya Rob
Yes didn't think of that!
Thanks for your comment Rob. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
My thouts to Rob, must have had good quality bore water
Bore water stuffs your hair u can't get perm or dye it until all the minerals are out which can take forever leaves it over dry too this is after regular use of course
@@mariavanwyk3863 And perming or dying your hair doesn't stuff it? D'oh.
@@mariavanwyk3863haha that’s a city woman problem not a farmers problem
Wow. Once a beautiful home now nothing but bones. In the end nothing matters.
Felt so sad thinking of the people who lived there and loved their home...fabulous
Whoever pics it up, I hope that they do a UA-cam series on the restoration, like 'Escape to rural France' etc. I would be fascinated to watch the restoration!
How good would that be.
Great comment 👍
Wat a stunning house it would of been and the beautiful open lands around it , just tranquil and freedom ❤
It really is 🤩
I remember the exact handbason on my grandparents farm in mid to late 1960s. And similar stoves same time. I would agree late 1800 to early 1900s. So sad to see a property deteriorated. Thank you for a great video
Thanks for sharing
The droughts make it hard to farm in the outback and I feel for those for worked it and ultimately walked away
Not all walk away. Some aren't given the choice. Where I live in South Australia the Army forcibly took the land and demolished many big stations just so they could own the land.
@@lifeisa_highway8957 Land ownership, the eternal issue.
Didn't walk away banks took it!
The little room alongside the garage with the pit probably once held the 32 volt electricity generator - common in outback homes between the wars. The radiator would have been in what is now the window, and the exhaust pipe came out thru the hole beneath the window, on the side away from the residence. Then, in the 50s and 60s, there would have been a proper 240 volt 'package unit' generator set up outside and further away to power the electrical farm and household equipment. (The wiring and fittings are all 240 volt, as is the Adelect No 3 stove.)
there's many beautiful old homes empty and scattered all over the outback like this one and particularly in South Australia, often farmers would fall on hard times thru decades of drought etc, or the banks would sell them up, the neighbouring farms often would buy these properties to extend their sheep capacity, maybe rent the house out but often leave them vacant
Beautiful old place.
Wow! What a beauty! I especially loved the Meat Safe😮 FYI: Butlers Pantries were a popular addition from the 1850s this one is exquisite. Thanks for the tour, if they need a Caretaker, let me know 😊❤
I'd love to know the history and the original owners/builders story.
Did they leave a Legacy behind? Is it still owned by the family?
Sorry, All these questions lol coz I'm a history buff and when I find abandoned homesteads I like to find out their stories so they're not forgotten ❤
I would be very happy to live there it would beat living in a 12 ft caravan , being a handyman it would suit me down to the ground, bloody Awesome. Yes please . I would move in before Xmas. Someone must own it, give me a call, At 58 it would be awesome to live there and renovate,
I hope you can find the location and do get to move in
That place must have been lovely once. My guess is those rings were used to fasten a tarp over the pool to slow evaporation, the pool possibly being also used as a water cistern (no evident filtration equipment)
Yeah, no evidence of filtration: So a tarp would reduce debris from the incessant wind and dry environment blowing leaves and dust (which beomes Mud) into the water. Also regulates water temp and stops massive evaporation in the dry summer heat - imagine continually topping up the bugger from the house tanks (there was no evidence of a bore)!!!! Imagine the teenage kids forever not putting the tarp back after use!!! ..... maybe that's why the parents left 🤥
I'd move there tomorrow
Me too!!
Awesome, thanks for your comment!
When i first left school i lived in a mansion like this. Fireplaces in each of the bedrooms, 2 in the lounge. Had cracks in the walls you could put your fist into. Chimney fell over and my parents wouldnt let me live there any longer. Best place i ever lived in
I just happened to see your video. Loved it.
Love old homes.
Amazing that the original part is pretty good with being left abandoned for so long but the extension area is in danger of going to collapse.... workmanship of old shines through. Having such a deep pool would have been incredible.
Would have been an outstanding home in it's day.
Did anyone send you photos of the home when it was lived in.
Did you find out about the history of the home on the station and what happened that it was abandoned?
Love the way you walked around inside the home very respectively.
Thanks for commenting, and also noting that we are always respectful of these Beautiful old homes.
We would've loved to of seen old photos of this home when it was a family home!
So glad you enjoyed watching 👍
As a bricklayer
Those fire places are incredible
Big $$$$$
In the day
The brickwork was tuckpoint
I'm guessing those rings around the pool may have originally had a rope running through them . Great Video 💙5000
Nailed it mate. Former owners commented that there was rope threaded through the rings for people to hold onto.
Appreciate your comment 👍
Ceiling decorations and cornice work alike indicate post 1920's , nearly identical to a 1936 build home I once had in Plympton . looking at the surrounding area is said building in the region of Orroroo?
You were worried about asbestos - those “lino “ tiles could have asbestos in them too - keep in mind for future adventures.
What a shame it would of been a realy beautiful homestead once upon a time hard living in the outback hot and dry 😊
Legendary as always. The size of that home is amazing. A Shane they put up that wall blocking the fire place to spacious living room. And yes that pool is absolutely amazing to see in the middle nowhere, keeping the water from evaporating would be a huge challenge. Thanks again for another great video, I think I’ll watch your video when you visited ravenswood 😊
Hi again, yeah evaporation would be a huge problem. Any thoughts on how they topped it up?
Thanks again for your huge support 👍
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia Hi, The rain doesn't fall often but when it does it pays to collect ever last drop. I'm guessing they would have been very water conservative?
( During drought farmers pay to have water shipped in tankers! )
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia as you said in your video, they must of wired used one of the water tanks or out a tarp over it to stop the water from evaporating.
Bore@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia
@@nvths50 Or a large pool canvas cover
The kitchen sink cupboard unit was installed some time in the decade after WW2. The vinyl tiles probably went down at the same time as the sink unit... certainly before 1960. The tiles and the adhesive probably contain asbestos.
This kitchen was never 'renovated' and turned into a modern 20th century bench-top kitchen. It's bare walls and the lack of fixed bench-tops or power outlets mean the kitchen retained its late 19th century stand alone side boards to store all the kitchen equipment.
This was an industrial kitchen of its day. Very basic but built like a tank and capable of feeding a dozen people when needed. The fact that everything that could move is gone, is a testament to how important it all was to the culture of the place.
The centre of the room was dominated by an enormous table(s) used for old school kitchen work such as baking bread, and sausages. Except for formal occasions, the kitchen was the hub of station life for both the family and station hands. Most meals and planning meetings would have occurred here.
The top cupboard in the corner was added in the mid 70s and is constructed along the lines of caravan furniture of the period. The condition of the range is good, meaning it was probably used right up to the time the house was abandoned.
The pantry would’ve been off limits to kids stealing biscuits, and dogs. It would have contained enough dry food to last about three months, or a whole season. And the house cat would have been kept busy. The meat of the day went into the meet safe. Not fresh killed, but hung in a cool room for several days.
The lady of the house insisted on the bathroom soon after the war, judging by the bath taps. It too was kept in good nick right up to the end. The shower went in later but not much later. It was a DIY job, that probably replaced a stand alone linen cupboard or vanity that was in the corner. Again, they never upgraded to built in cupboards.
What a beautiful spot!
Thanks for watching. It's a spectacular spot!
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I loved the old homestead, lived in a few in my life. Sorry for one little correction, according to my information, the pantry was only a walk-in pantry (a butler's pantry contains an additional sink, along with food prep area).
Australia is one of the best countries at ignoring the architectural, pastural and social history that was so integral to this country.
Could the loops on the pool be for attaching a pool cover, perhaps??
Very interesting show.
No pool cover, and no butler!
WOW, The pool. Well done guys. Many people in outback areas built their own pools, all had some machinery to do it, probably no filters etc; but who cared.
Pit was common on properties in the middle of nowhere for maintaining vehicles.
We have one of these in the family. It’s 175 years old. It’s National trust. It was last renovated in 1947.
Everything, the house, the shearer’s shed, Even the rubbish on the ground cannot be moved.
The rubbish tip is of great importance.
Wild!
The property is on 100,000 acres. It cannot be used, renovated or sold.
Minimum maintenance is allowed at great cost and conditions.
The property is an Albatross.
The rings around the top of the pool would probably have been for a rope rail, something to hold onto. Awesome video guys.
Ah yes, it quite possibly was.
Cheers and Thanks for watching!
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia
You got yourselves another subscriber 👍
Amazing find, thanks for sharing. I love looking at these old buildings in SA, they were certainly built very well. I was surprised by the two kitchens. Was the property split for duel occupancy? That former lounge made into a hall with the chimney covered, well the door looked like a bolt to stop entry from that second kitchen. Anyway an amazing house unfortunately left to deteriorate but still so much potential.
What an awesome gem it would have once been, im from South Australia & would love to see it for myself..thanks for sharing💯
Thanks for watching! ❤️
Amazing, just discovered you guys, will go back and do some binge watching....
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Enjoy our other videos!
Cheers 👍
Those ringlets on the pool walls are for the cheapest handrail out there ... rope . Cheers for the video .
The rings are to hold a cover over the pool to prevent evaporation. Like a tarp
Cant imagine they built a homestead of that size in such dry country without having access to a bore close to the house. Although the bore water quality might have not been fit for drinking, I'm sure it would have been fine for stock and the pool. The evaporation rate on a hot day would have been at least 30cm. Allowing for hot windy days and minor pool leaks it could have been double that. I don't think they would be using precious drinking water to top up the pool. Bore water was also used for showering as well sometimes.
Had rain water to drink and shower
I currently have bore water for showering@@shirleydearlove2835
I grew up in Victoria where it was common to have abandoned homes as a result of property consolidation.
Absolutely correct!
Thanks for commenting.
Cheers
I think that the swimming pool is a water storage tank
Beautiful ❤❤❤😊
Thank you! Cheers!
That would be fun project to bring back to a liveable state and update it and fix the garden grounds
It sure would. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Interesting the electrical switch board is late 70’s early 80’s, mystery house for sure.
You find newspaper under carpet or Lino in most old homes,good video.
That’s a real home stead people have had fun
If roof and foundations are solid, and not penetrated by moisture, a structure will remain solid, until one or other of the floor and base give out. Unfortunately, and perhaps inevitably, it does look like the roof here is starting to rust through in places. If it doesn't get repaired in the next few years, that will spell the end of the lovely old homestead.
Looks great still looks like good house to live in
My question would be WHY is such a large homestead left abandoned.. and not been reclaimed or restored.
From what I've heard on some properties is that mines buy them up or bigger sheep stations expand and aren't interested in the properties, dam shame
I would love to see if you could do a video on exploring the abandoned house on the front album cover of 'Diesel and Dust' by the band Midnight Oil. However, I'm not exactly sure if its on private property and I believe tours by the Burra council are done there.
Hi, unfortunately that house is on private property.
Thanks for your comment 👍
Excellent video guys we love traveling around the bush seeing all the things from our past definitely would check it out if we knew where it was seems to be a good road going past
That pool just blew me away...why so deep,as Spud said Scary.
Perhaps that's how deep they made pools back then, im not sure. Hope you loved it!! 👍
Not a pool. It’s a bore bath. Would have had a constant bore feed and an overflow outlet somewhere. Had one on a place, very similar next to a stone shearer’s quarters/station hands quarters. There was another by the old main house that had decayed to just a couple of walls, chimneys and foundations.
Recommended to you guys by Werner and newly subscribed. Fantastic find here and love how extensive the property is. They are often hidden "cities" in themselves hey. Keep up the wonderful vids 💯 😍
As my Uncle would have said " Bloody shame letting the place go to rack and ruin" . .My opinion family died off and ones left were not intrested being out the middle of " woop woop" now where.Then the bank took it and it just went down hill like these properties usually do .
Family did not die off, banks in the 80s were assholes
Very interesting thanks for sharing. Well done 👍✅
Happy you enjoyed it 👍
What an amazing find indeed hello from NSW. New sub here.
Thanks for the sub!
Guys, excellent production. Beautiful editing and soundscape. Very nice combo of cinematography styles.
Well done! Creatively it’s very nice and technically, it’s excellent.
Kudos 🙌☺️
Great vid guys. I love these old Homesteads
This home would of been beautiful in its day !
Absolutely!
The UK has a Govt Program, for derelict properties to purchase for a Pound, providing you completely restore it.
Perhaps Australian should get within the Program!
Sounds like a great idea!!
Thanks for watching 😃
That would be fantastic
Would love to own this beautiful house and do it up
Me too 🤩
They use to build in verandas & use as sleepouts. Those rings around the pool would of been to attach a cover over it.
WOW What a great video thank you
I feel sad to see properties abandoned where there is such a large population of homeless people and the number still growing 😢☹️☹️
I hear ya, problem is with some of these properties there out in the sticks so not suitable for everyone 😔
Homeless generally don't have cars & there aint no public transport in the woop woop
The pool is the indicator of wealth. I’ve never seen an inground pool that old. I don’t know of any other property like this, with a pool.
The pool would’ve gone in during the 1950’s.
These people were still riding high on wool
In the 1950s wool was a pound for a pound, so a lot of wealth at that time. While the wool price has recovered since the crash in the 80s that’s been tempered by expensive shearing & crunching costs since
@@user-rv6zk1pp7ryes. Agreed.
Our family are pastoralist back to 1879 with 100,000 acres out past Cobar.
Vacant now.
Heritage listed.
Last reno’d in 1945 and now a time capsule. My great grandmother stayed out there after ggrandpa died in ‘57.
She spent the remainder of her life 50/50 in MacQuarie st (Sydney) and on the station.
It would have been considered a grand home at one stage.
There would be lots of abandoned sheep property homesteads throughout Australia
Nice one guys..looks bloody dry though
It's very dry. It'd be so hot there in the summertime too.
A pool would be a welcome relief!
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia thankyou for the adventure,I've only ever driven thru s.a so it's nice to see a bit of it.I just went n watched yr Flinders Ranges one too.NIIIICE!!
I lived there in 1989.
U said it what a shame what a shame someone could make this great again wonderful veiws omg had a pool to
Thank you great Vid.
What an awesome find. bummer we didn't get to see the kitchen would of looked pretty neat. Such a huge homestead definately would of stood proud in its day. Nice find ohh and wow a pool thats a first especially in the out back, would of been the best place in the hot summer. Im thinking those rings around the pool might of been some sort of netting to stop the leaves and stuff getting into the water Cheers for showing us around.
We're thrilled you like it Werner. A huge compliment!
Love your work 👍🤩
Hey Werner I love watching your videos mate Keep up the great work👌😊
the kitchen was shown…5 minute to 8 minutes
WOW What a gem, who knew we had that here in Adelaide. Thanx for sharing this gorgeous place. From Adeliade. new subbie here.
If someone did have the money to restore the home, i feel that there would be a market for it as a "stay in the outback". I know that i would go for a holiday stay there. So peaceful and you can see for miles and miles. The home needs work but the original section has solid bones so to speak. A manager could live there permanently on site.
Absolutely!
I enjoyed this one!
I do always wonder about the story of thiese homes as I feel it is just as important...
I guess it is high drought areas but looks like it would have been homed till at about 20 years ago or less as those electrical outlets at 15:42 in garage look very modern...
I guess just drought made the land enviable :(
Homed 30 years ago
Thanks! @@shirleydearlove2835
If I only had the money to fix it up 😢
Pools were put in for “fire fighting” and it was a tax deduction, so there are a few about.
What a fabulous weekender.
Clean it up and get a bore water pump.
Put in a plan runway and you are set.
Certainly would be an excellent holiday home.
Cheers 👍
I'd move in tomorrow ❤
@@Jo-cm5yc it's a fabulous house.
Thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed it!
I have been to this house as well.
The other house there would be better choice with great views to the east. You could even fix the tennis courts on the corner.
2 bathrooms 2 kitchens, lockable ajoining door, looks like it was a dual family dwelling.
This was built between 1880-1900. It would’ve been a pastoral homestead built by a wealthy landowner.
It has been fully renovated in the late 1950’s at great expense. Ours was reno’d in 1947.
I can tell by the original fittings and fixtures, and the style of the renovations.
Somebody owns this property is well aware of its condition
Not true built in 1920s
@@shirleydearlove2835 Yes, all the joinery, doors, skirting, architraves, is classic 20s, and the panelled ceilings. The besser block additions would most likely have been late 70s to early eighties.
What a fantastic old homestead, are they 10 and 12 foot ceilings ?
Great find but I wonder if it was a pool very large and deep
This would have been the equivalent to a mansion back then.
Yes. When I grew up, most homes had 2 bedrooms whether you had one child or 7 and a small lounge room with adults on chairs and kids on the floor. And, if you were lucky then you had an inside toilet 😂. This home would definitely be view back in my childhood as a mansion.
It makes me sad to see these lovely old solid homes go to ruin, no one wants to live in the remote outback anymore, rely to much on the internet and all the other modern cons which they carnt do without. Shame!
There’s heaps of old house been flashed like abandoned everywhere in Australia from old days in outback bush whichever will give you more interesting information for what they do in old days
It's just a pity that homes like this aren't fixed up to put families in esp with the housing crisis here in Australia.
‘Fixed up’?
By whom?
How’s anyone going to live there in the middle of nowhere you’d need to be self sufficient, if you had kids they’d need home schooling it’s a bloody hard life living like this you work your fingers to the bone.
No water no power no sewerage. You want to live out there ?
Oh right lets pop our homeless 100’s of kilometres out of the way
It would cost several thousand dollars in fuel alone, just to move into this place, as is.
Wow I'd live their
The pool probably had a cover and the hooks would be to tie it down.
Don't tell half a story. Where (roughly speaking) was this homestead located in Australia. The location explains a lot of the history of the homestead. Cattle or sheep property? What is the name of the ranges in the background? I am betting that the location of the property is within reasonable driving distance of a town from which they purchased groceries etc? There appears to be no airstrip so the place is not too remote. Plus I am not seeing any quantity of tanks for fuel supplies. But it is a good find. I have explored a number of abandoned homesteads in the Northern Territory way more remote where planes are essential for transportation.
They said South Australia they probably don’t want to provide too many details to reveal location you’d end up with too many people turning up to see this place or potential vandalism.
The catalog in the kitchen sink gives you a good indication of 4 possible close locations. Urban exploring is about capturing the past, keeping everything as is and not giving away the exact location because not everyone has good intentions.
Looked to be a more modern building towards the horizon in some of the opening shots.
Mate you do Not give these locations away, these houses already cop to much vandalism
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@@madmick3725 Good point Mick. I always forget about those micreant elements of coloured scum in this country who just want to destroy our proud history. It really is a beautiful homestead with a couple of make-overs. Did you notice the courtyard near the covered carport? These courtyards were incorporated near the house and surrounded by big walls so that the kids had somewhere to play outside but with some protection from wandering snakes etc. Plus they built a covered entryway all the way from the carport to the bedroom side of the house. That house was truly grand. Cheers B.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
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@@madmick3725 YOU WANT ROOM 16 FOR HIM ?
Ahhh gotta love Basil Fawlty!! 🤣
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia WHAT IS WIT NIT ?
Butlers pantry has a sink that doesn't I wld say just a good size pantry.
The broken window in the conservatory was broken from the inside out, so a sheep probably ran through it in a panic !
What a shame a bit of work would be brought back to its lovely state a great family home.
Maybe the hooks in the pool were for a cover to stop evaporation. Wouldn't want to lose water
We thought the same initially. However previous owners have reached out to us and said they used to have rope threaded through them for holding onto.
Thanks for watching 👍
@@escapetoeverywhereaustralia thanks
Shame about the 50's kitchen, would love to see the original. Was this near a township or maybe it was a station ?