Abandoned- Original Australian farm house left for nature to decay/Built between 1860-1890

This old Australian relic is a perfect example of how time and nature take its toll of the farm houses that were built from around 1870-1900 here in our the hot dry State of South Australia.
There are mixed clues inside that suggest this home could be last lived in as far back as the 40`s. There are a few beautiful old items still inside that show the natural decay relevant to the home which is amazing. There are also old pieces of machinery outside that remind us just how basic and hard old farm life was back in the day. I enjoy these old trips back in time and if the walls could talk we could learn so much more. :-)

[@SlightlyDangerous302]

This property was owned by William Henry Wasley, who was a large land owner in this district his son Samuel built this homestead on it in the mid 1880's , it was called Glen Burnie . Williams property was closer to the river and name Fairfield

[@pennywebb867]

Thanks

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

Nice find. So good to see history without the tags and vandalism just a gentle decay. Thank you for documenting.

[@australianwoman9696]

I know this old home, I've taken pictures of it on the way to Peterborough around 7 years ago. I wanted to stop but was with others who's schedule wouldn't allow it? I too love the feeling of life which lingers in lonley old homes such as this. You can just imagine the lives that passed through these walls. The old bottles, books, beds all tell the stories of long past..... ( I wouldn't have gone in due to danger, snakes, spiders as well as LICE from the pigeons!

[@lisab301]

Beautiful home. I always think of the stories that have been lost to time, I imagine the crutches by the door hold story of their own.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

Wow this one is a stunning old girl. Would have been quite the talking point back in the day. Rich farming family home. Beautiful stonework. Love the old stove. The thing in the other room is a gas run clothes dryer. Such a shame those walls are seperating. Still looks so elegant.

[@rygersheepstealer2298]

Is isn't it! Soo classic Nth Sth Aust loved it to

[@andreaharrington8916]

What an awesome find!!! I love the older homes, the older the better!!! So much history there!!! I'm glad you're safe!!! Thanks for getting this documented🥰

[@beverlyjones4020]

To think that one man’s hands did this.......amazing ingenuity

[@vanessasimmons1175]

Love the way you care about the pigeons. Not many folk are tolerant of them . We have to share this planet. It’s not ours entirely.

[@shortmanaut1736]

Very interesting doco,these old homesteads are where time stands still.Like you said if the walls could talk what a story they'd tell.Thanks for showing this old place,job well done!🙂👍

[@margaretingleby679]

I spotted a few of these on the road down from Broken Hill to Adelaide mainly just the stone gable ends , also a couple of deserted townships which are heritage listed , apparently in the mid 1850's the rainfall was plentiful so hopefuls set up wheat and general farms against the advice of an expert geologist who mapped a limit line where beyond this line the country's soil and plantlife seldom experienced sufficient rainfall , this line is still called the Gwyder line , he was proven correct and over time the selections were abandoned. .Would love to see your discovery restored , thanks for the video .

[@anthonywilson7304]

As soon as I saw the ruin I guessed it was northern rural South Australia. We used to go out to the old homestead ruins 40 years ago in southern flinders and do exactly what this bloke did but without the mobile phone. It brought familiar memories. Fantastic video, thankyou.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Anthony :-) We used to do it as kids back in country Vic. Never thought 40 years later it would be a thing on TV lol well nearly TV haha 🙂

[@anthonywilson7304]

@@urbexindigo5164 You did a wonderful job finding something like that. I wonder if its still owned by the original families. Take care and watch your step haha.

[@joniflanakingriffin3541]

So much love and care went into building this house. Must have been very nice at one time. Just had a great feeling about it.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Back in a time when every part of the day required some type of labor pretty much. A simple but hard life. Can picture a big family being happy in there for many years. :-)

[@Thetis058]

Awesome find . I’m a romantic so I think about how this place must of been in its heyday. I am wondering if the builder of the house may of lived out in the smaller building while construction of the main home was being carried out . I imagine a bachelor arriving on this land building this place up or a man just a newlywed establishing a home for him his wife and future children. A hard existence, but a very peaceful life away from the city . I think part of one of the mantles was propped up by the doorway of the room later established to probably be the kitchen . Even though this place was far out there some money was spent to provide detailed character like the trim around the doorways ( not sure about the window sill ) must of been nice hardwood flooring, however I did notice in most of the living area this was covered by carpet. That well structure was also pretty cool to see . Someone is obviously still working this land as either pasture for animals or to grow hay for livestock. I think I was truly born in the wrong century , though I would still like to live out in an area like this with no flopping neighbours , less air pollution and a simpler way of life .

[@kathyscheiman2715]

It’s so sad to see a part of your, our, history just rot away. I wish that at least the medallion from the light fixture could be saved. 😢

[@beverlyjones4020]

Thank you for taking that walk to get closer. Such beautiful stonework.........just amazing to see.

[@urbexindigo5164]

No worries at all Beverly :-) I`m more than happy to walk way out to these homes. They may not have much left inside but the feeling and vibe you get from seeing how old and how times were so different is very amazing and hopefully some of that still translates through the camera for you guys. :-)

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

@@urbexindigo5164 Would luv to try for EVPs there even in the day time.

[@Daiska_Plays]

I hope some of these old homesteads have been kept alive here and there. They're so distinctive, and exactly the sort of place I'd love to live in, when not falling apart. Hopefully there's others who feel the same way and keep history living. Would love to be able to go there and see for myself!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Tanya thanks for watching and appreciating these old beauties! :-) I will be i`m currently uploading another old one right now! :-)

[@margaretmac50]

My partner and I used to travel Australia in our holidays and we would stop to have a look in old, abandoned homes. It was so interesting and the history was amazing. Town people could often tell you the family that lived there and their history.

[@ontoitaussie7390]

Thanks for sharing a beautiful part of our history. 🇦🇺❤️❤️❤️

[@cindycrawford5124]

indigo: hi from usa. yet another fantastic vid! you're my FAVORITE, no kidding. great finds, great camera work, love your darling voice. i like, subscribe & hit bell-i'm mostly bedridden with bad scoliosis, and with you i can visit enchanting, historic australia. thank you.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Cindy thanks for your support! :-) Sorry to hear your mostly bed ridden but i`m glad you are enjoying seeing Australia through these videos! :-) I will have many more for you to enjoy also. thanks for watching, speak soon. Cheers from Adelaide Australia :-)

[@annemuskee9004]

Thank you for showing a little bit of Australian history.

[@urbexindigo5164]

My pleasure, thanks again Anne :-)

[@jochenludewig8857]

An amazing piece of Australian history......hard people back then but they made do with what they had. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work, love it!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanksfor the support Jochen, amazing old relic and example of what you said, hard working and simple life before things got easier but far more complicated. People had to built quality back then. :-)

[@myroom4640]

It would of been such a beautiful house in its day, lots of rooms and those high ceilings !!!! I like how careful and respectful you are, and how you appreciate these old relics. Keep up the great work. 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍

[@australianwoman9696]

I believe I've driven past this old girl on the road to Peterborough? I took photos because it's a piece of our pioneer history. I could almost imagine a woman emerging from the front door wearing a wide brimmed hat tied on with a ribbon, long skirts, boots & basket in hand going out to check the coop for eggs! Her husband wearing britches Over a cotton shirt & trousers heading off Over the fields to start the days work with a dog at his heal. The english garden surrounding the house & a swing hanging from an old gumtree which was vibrant & full of life ......back in the day.....the white picket fence marking the boundary complete with a cute little gate which was always open ready to welcome guests..... The walking sticks near the door left behind on the last day one of them exited the home never to return stirred feelings of.... sadness & hope mingled with loss. 😭♥️ (Oh look I've written a book! 😂)

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Australian Woman. A well written book too :-) Great comments and this old place is still one of my favs. I try to picture the lives and chores they did everyday just to get the food on the table and have the life on the land. Cheers for watching :-)

[@australianwoman9696]

@@urbexindigo5164 Thanks! I'm never short on words much to my mother's disappointment ! 🤣 Keep posting I love these old homes. 👍 Be careful of snakes in the summertime. 🐍

[@2669steph]

The exterior of that house is gorgeous! I love how it's stone walls with bricks around windows, doors and corners. A house like this would be beautiful if restored, but that would take a LOT of work! Thanks for finding this and stay safe! ~Steph

[@urbexindigo5164]

It would be amazing to see someone restore this but unfortunately I very much doubt it will happen so i`m glad I filmed it before it falls down! I`l try to find as many as possible :-)

[@man.i.literally.failed6772]

your better off taking measurements and photos, than demolish and re build as per original, to do that today a house like that would cost $650,000 +, good stone masons are hard to find, that's where all the skill is and money is.

[@MaryWhiteWolf]

Oh, to think of the hard work, love of the land and the vision to see it through. The house was well made for certain! The walls need to be shored up and repaired. I fell in love with the cabinet and the beautiful faded blue of the wall. It looks like it could be well at home in the old West. The old naked tree next to it looks like it could be an old "hangin' tree". What sort of bees do you have there to have to keep an eye out for? Here in North Texas where I live, we have honey bees and bumble bees. We had a batch of honey bees get in between our outer and inner walls of our house last summer and had to have them removed. There were a lot of them! This was a cool explore! :-D

[@urbexindigo5164]

This one is indeed an amazing old relic and a very good example of how hard work and craftsmanship with field stones can accomplish something so good. This is one home I really wish I has some history and old photos of!!! Wow to see it in its hey day would be amazing :-) I did think that old tree and the whole scene looked like the old west for sure!!!!!! Usually I come across honey bees Mary and they are usually in the walls too or the guttering. Been stung once before i started actually filming the houses but were exploring some. Am getting used to navigating around them now. Some old homes have multiple hives and without a keepers hat it is just too risky especially in spring when they setting up the queen and swarming. Cheers again Mary :-)

[@margaretmac50]

We used to travel Australia and stop to look through old, abandoned, homes. I loved the history and the stories of the people. Many town folks could tell you about the families. The Flinders Ranges have so many cottages barely standing. Great videos.

[@jeanettemcdonald5779]

Really enjoyed the tour of this old place, thanks for posting.

[@dariuslankarian3282]

that's a solid house. the tradies back then took pride in their work.

[@patricialangford5380]

Thanks Paul for the tour . The outside was amazing the land is beautiful.

[@Momvon1]

I love the cabinet in the front room and the kitchen was huge.

[@lizregan1949]

I always think at one time this was a wonderful family home, with all the joys, love, laughter and disappointment and sadness a families go through. Now it is reduced to garbage. Always makes me a little sad.

[@heatherfrances3678]

very old, and still standing, our home was 100 years old it had a fire stove in kitchen and when mum left it was still there ixl stove, the kettle was always on the boil in winter , when mum an dad did the home up one of the bedroom walls had hesshian in thewall newspaper under the lino, a very big solid front door with lead light at the top, it was an old gold miners cottage, people bought it made a few changes but kept the stove in kitchen , old as the hills but solid and very comfortable, we moved there in early sixties and mum moved out in 2005 I think.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Wow! Thats so cool Heather, I love hearing more about these old places. Its one thing to go out and see them but to speak with people who actually lived in them is fantastic. I try to picture how people lived inside and how simple life was. Hard but simple also. There are a few more of these old homes I have ear marked and hope to get to very soon. This one is a decent sized one. Thanks for watching :-)

[@heatherfrances3678]

yes thankyou, it had a double block an we had peoples horses in that we had chooks and the sheds were still there when mum went to care, massive garden mum did herself, that's gone and all stones now as people only come for holiday, the original wall paper still was in one room, toothpick roof as mum call it, woodshed was old and still in use, we had a donkey heater in bathroom, lit it and the water ran hot in bath, later on renovated to wood heater on veranda an then gas toilet still out side and one in bathroom an shower, old fire places, picket fence house was yellow now its all white, its still there and alive its in Maryborough Victoria in goldsmith street, was a very old one next door not painted but was pulled down, one across the road burnt down and one down road still there, moligal which is dunolly area welcome stranger on dirt roads you may find old mud brick huts

[@josephinemacmillan9082]

Heather Cameron q

[@daviddanser7801]

Awesome video, beautiful old house, thanks for sharing

[@ExploringwithJimmy]

Thank you I really enjoyed your video i left my support Take care my friend

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Jimmy thanks for watching and your support, really appreciate it! :-) I will head over and check out your channel too! :-)

[@lynncorvillion7557]

This was so cool! It must have been so nice at one time! The rooms are big. I wonder about the family or families that have lived here. Is there anyone left? I love the stonework. That must have taken awhile to build! Thanks so much! Truly a step back in time. 💜

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Lynn :-) A local did comment on this a few years back and said they knew the family from way back and it was last lived in in the late 50`s and only had a generator to power the lights and a few a couple of appliances :-)

[@mamamia2534]

This stone house is so beautiful standing alone with beautiful scenery around .....although d inside is totally ruined..I really love this kind of environment..nice video..thank you

[@rachaelspicer326]

We own a house in NSW that was built in 1852, it's a stonehouse built almost identical to this old beauty... It has engravings tha have been left as a historic feature wall that date back to 1897...If only the walls could speak... I'll post pic below...😊

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Rachel, that's awesome! 🙂 These old homes are like markers in time and our history. I love being in them and learning. Glad you have a piece of history; 🙂👍

[@catherinesarah5831]

That Narco machine is a washing machine from the 1940’s. We had a later model of that one back in 1955. 🙏

[@maurad5378]

Amazed again how big these homes are and high the ceilings are. I really enjoy your exploring!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanks again for watching Maura, glad you are enjoying. They sure had a grand old way of using what was handy at the time to build a house. :-)

[@jenniferspotten915]

Love this! It makes me think about the family ranch in the Thornbirds movie. I can picture the people living there on the farm making their living farming the sheep ect. Love the coat rack in the hall, I can almost hear the voices of the family coming in for dinner, after a very hard days work out in the fields. They hang their coats up as they make their way to the kitchen, where the clanking of the pots and pans and smell of dinner in the kitchen area! I’m so glad you are documenting these places, as so much history here! Thanks again for such a great adventure!

[@TheBichonBabe]

What great old architecture. Thanks for sharing.

[@urbexindigo5164]

My pleasure Sylvia, really glad you enjoyed this old relic :-)

[@anitapresnell6403]

Awesome find! Glad you are safe. Looked really dodgy walking through that.

[@yarniwolf]

Great video. Thanks for uploading.

[@YtGad7000]

Love the way they built the exterior. Lovely find.

[@outandaboutsa17]

Love this house... Good find....

[@violetchloe399]

Beautiful setting and interesting build of a home. Thank you!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanks for watching Laura :-) Glad you enjoyed. Cheers.

[@nancysmith2295]

Thank you for this tour. Through your adventures I have come to see this basic design as somewhat common to your area. I love the old touches put on homes during the era. They are found here in the states as well.

[@Momvon1]

Great explore as always!

[@lorrainebarry7184]

they were very well built then thankyou for sharing

[@janwarriner5037]

Another GREAT find! OLD house!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Jan thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed this old beauty! :-)

[@doreendeptowicz8142]

Love the exterior wall construction!!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Built from field stones it seems Doreen! Pretty amazing and built with sweat and hard labor!!!! Thanks for watching :-)

[@slepper98]

Good stuff, well done. Thank you.

[@shirleybaughman4512]

Thank you thank you for finding this really old house. When we looked through the door and saw the lack of floor, I wasn’t sure, but you went right in. Your close ups were so good. The flower on the first cabinet door was sweet. And lots of color in this house. Thanks!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Shlirley I was going in floor or no floor! haha :-) I was actually surprised there was still some floor. It shows this house was one of the more significant in this area because a lot of the smaller ones have very crude floors with old cement. This definitely was the main homestead of a large property. Would love a few old photos of it from its glory days! :-)

[@Ellenslife851]

Very nice house love it’s charm

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey SWBW thanks for watching. So much charm and history. A very large gap since this place was lived in, around 1940`s I think. :-)

[@twistednerd23]

The outside, wow. It's very instersing find for sure.

[@mick00000000002]

Love old school. Thank you mate. Stay safe mate.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Glad you enjoyed it Mick, it is an old beauty :-)

[@geraldlarocque6832]

Seems that house was well built to last out there in the open. Great video. Thanx

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Gerald :-) I grew up in the country and there a heaps of these old homes , most are in bad shape or just ruins. This one is in what you`d consider decent shape for one that has been left to rot and for it`s age. :-) Some sit right next to the really new homesteads and are well maintained or in nice condition for their age.

[@joanpreciouskisakye3171]

Great ; maintain its originality!

[@ExploringChannelNetherlands]

great video again! I love this kind of locations, thumbs up!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanks guys! So good to get out and see what things were like way back then even if there is not much left inside these homes. :-)

[@kimfitzgeraldrockfam8973]

beautiful old house lovely to see great find

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Kim, thanks for watching and your support! :-)

[@maristresemann4552]

I can imagine what a grand homestead this would have been back in it's day. I'm glad you didn't fall too.

[@vilmalima252]

Indeed, it is astonishing to know that there are such wonderful places and that they give us a slight impression of having lived through this time and it makes us wonder how much the life of these families who lived in that farm house had to be laborious but that in many moments, They were happy in such a beautiful place. I wish I was lucky enough to dress such a fascinating place. I look forward to your work and the most success in this journey. A big hug.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Vilma thanks so much for watching and your support! Really appreciate it :-) Such a simple yet hard life for the families working the land back then but as you say also rewarding when times are good and money is made for survival. Every part of the day was laborious even for the wife and kids. Would love to step back for and hour or two and watch it all unfold. :-)

[@kezmurray3]

Lovely historical buildings.

[@stevetaylor9556]

Very cool mate , pretty neat place ,enjoyed it .

[@cryptocandlesticktrading1657]

Thanks for doing these videos, I just found your channel and subscribed. Interesting stuff, I often think that many years ago this home was brand new and some very proud person lived here in this fantastic home.

[@sheilaknigge3507]

Another great video thank you for sharing

[@urbexindigo5164]

My pleasure Sheila, glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching :-)

[@marytillman8758]

I love that old place.

[@leehurley8358]

That's a really great place! Thanks

[@urbexindigo5164]

My pleasure Lee! :-) glad you enjoyed , thanks for watching :-)

[@thewhiterabbit2076]

Very fascinating 👍👍🌟

[@archonlegion6288]

Thanks a lot for sharing mate, much appreciated 👍

[@urbexindigo5164]

My pleasure Archon Legion. Cheer for watching :-)

[@greglittle1349]

👍 really enjoyed looking in this house thanks Indy!

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Greg i`m really glad you liked this one as did i, so glad it is still standing. Would love to see a pic of it in its glory years! :-) Thanks for watching :-)

[@greglittle1349]

Hey Indy, You mentioned about the farmers around the area and maybe asking them about the house, are you?

[@urbexindigo5164]

Yeah mate, I`m hoping to get out that way again next weekend :-)

[@suzantonn1188]

Awesome it's great to see a traditional Australian home of that era.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Suzan thanks for stopping bye! :-) Yes they are amazing old homes before the traps of modern life! Have found a few more since this one and are of the same era but different sizes and areas. :-)

[@mkuebler5]

nice one. Thanks for showing us

[@urbexindigo5164]

Cheers mate! :-)

[@huxbricks524]

I really like old abandoned houses! This one was probably beautiful in its glory days :D

[@urbexindigo5164]

I totally agree! Huxbricks :-) Cheers for watching

[@lexiequinus55]

Hi, thanks for the Tour of this old beauty. It makes you wonder where and how long it took to find all those rocks within each wall. the brickwork is still amazing especially the Roman Arch doorway at the back door. Thanks again, these old places are beautiful...

[@lizhill8423]

Oh my god, if only! I love this video - i love this building! I traveled through central Australia when I was a kid and i still remember the old relics i saw today! This is cool, 4 walls and a roof! I am so jealous! When I get half a chance I be back and seeing these places for myself :)

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Liz! :-) So glad you enjoyed this one! This one still stick in my mind as I got a very strong feeling of being back in another time way back when things were simple yet harder. Family orientated times. :-) Roll the sleeves up and build a home out of field stones and work the land. Glad you had a connection!!! Cheers for watching :-)

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Beautiful thanks for sharing

[@urbexindigo5164]

thanks for watching this old beauty, one of my fav explores still. :-)

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Urbex Indigo I certainly enjoyed this thanks again. ;)

[@rogerfleury9759]

The house looks like it was built out of field stones they found in the surrounding area. Tin roof rusted. A B52 reference. That was quite a grand front door at one time! With no door knobs. The irons in the cupboard look like the ones we used in my High School shop class in 1970s that we would heat up and use them to solder pieces of metal together. They wouldn’t put a medallion as nice as that one in just any old house, this place was upscale even though it was out in the boonies. What, do I see a doorknob? This home must have been very nice in it’s day.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Definitely field stones used Roger. I did not see any light or power switches either but there seemed to be cords of some sort hanging down from two rooms? Weird. Maybe they had basic lighting powered up. I think this was a grand old home in its day. Very old one indeed, thanks for watching :-)

[@Momvon1]

What a grand old house it must have been. You can still see the beauty in what is left.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Absolutely Vonda, even though there is never much left inside regarding contents there is much to admire of what seems so long ago with these old homes! Thanks for watching :-)

[@johnmanshanden8271]

Wow the outside is holding up better then the inside great to look at all the same from nana di

[@zodiac6968]

This guy is the best at these videos.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Cheers Scott :-) Got a 2 hour special tomorrow on a hidden cottage in the suburbs :-)

[@zodiac6968]

@@urbexindigo5164 Look forward to it, don't know which i prefer, old farm houses from the late 1800's or homes from the 70's with plenty of retro furniture, both great. I remember my father and i looking through an abandoned farm house in Drysdale here in Vic around 80'-81' great experience, one i'll never forget, i was ten at the time my father was fifty.

[@urbexindigo5164]

@@zodiac6968 awesome! As kids we snooped through the old soldier settlement homes long abandoned out in the farm paddocks. They are still there :-)

[@zodiac6968]

@@urbexindigo5164 Amazing! i remember being scared to go inside but my father always assured me things would be ok, i wasn't so sure, i just watched your video with the squatters note, weird, what is the creepiest place you have recorded in? what video has the best display of retro items?

[@wendymcfadyen-allerby6142]

very old place but cool to see. I am sure lots of family life went on I can see bread and food being made kids running around, births and death. This home would hold memories for someone out there. Tyvm for this.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Very Old Home too Wendy so you are right, it would have seen births and deaths! i love the history and mystery these old ones hold and hide! :-)

[@fatihaidrissi2743]

i like your channel, nice work....waiting for more videos

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanks Fatiha for your support and for watching, much appreciated :-)

[@CrackingGate]

Cool little video about the old house. Our family house was similar in dimensions and layout (obviously in better condition) with stone flooring out in Koolunga, South Australia.

[@johnrobertson7129]

Bees ! Not to be messed with at all. Up here in AZ, Arizona, USA we suffer with the Africanized variety ! The damn things are born pissed off ! Not as bad as "Jumping Jacks" but they are on an equal plane for dispensing misery with the Jumping Jacks. I always dressed out with taped up Safe-T suits and head gear. I also love the flat stone rip-rap construction. Thank you ever so much for your efforts. I would truly enjoy a trip down to OZ. J.R.

[@efeightyeight]

john robertson once this COVID bullshit is over, you will be most welcome to come down for a visit!

[@jburnett8152]

Fascinating. 🦘🦘🦘

[@bruisernight4197]

There are many old places like this beauty in SA. After the Great War, the returned soldiers were settled across various parts of Australia on 640 acre properties (sq mile) The premise being that it was enough for someone to make a reasonable living off. Unfortunately much of the land in SA was north of the Goyder Line. During the first decade of the 1900's they had excellent seasons, with good rains and the land was considered great, however after the poor old soldiers worked themselves and their families half to death, the seasons cycled back to 'normal'. Long hot summers and little winter rains meant they basically couldn't even grow enough food for themselves, let alone enough to sell. The other reason there are so many places like this is the amalgamation of small farms into large farms. This was in the 30's and 40's when the horse teams were replaced with tractors and the land simply wasn't rich enough to support vast numbers of workers. End of an era. Last comment. That isn't a horse drawn combine but a tractor drawn, hence the A hitch.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Great comments😁 I am from rural Victoria originally and the town I grew up in has the old WW1 soldier homes scattered around the farms which as you said were absorbed in to larger ones and the soldiers had an impossible task of making a decent living. The drier conditions if SA would have been a nightmare. These old homes sit there as book marks in our history I just want them to not be forgotten. Cheers for the great info. Are you in SA? 👍

[@suewade114]

Thank you so much for that explanation. I often wonder about the origins of these types of houses.

[@bruisernight4197]

@@urbexindigo5164 Hi, I was but I’m now living in Salta, Argentina, which is guess is still in SA

[@janelovesy2399]

A Beauty ! Thank you !

[@urbexindigo5164]

A beautiful relic still standing out in the fields! Such a great old place Jane. Glad you agree, thanks for watching :-0

[@LL-sq8se]

It is beautiful but the life people lived ,was a hard life! I hope the familys moved on to a better life! Thanks for the video!👍🙋🕊️

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi, L L :-) Such a simple yet very hard way to live compared to these days! I try to imagine while i`m out at these old houses how it was and it always amazes me the effort that every day required to keep the family fed and sheltered. :-)

[@MrGaryRoberton]

You can see how early it is from the choices of building materials, and the style of the windows, to let in the light, but not the heat. probably an outdoor Dunnie and stables, would give a lot to have seen that place in good knick. Thank you for the effort.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Thanks Gary! And for watching :-) Would love to track down some history and old photos of this place.

[@servicedogkyzanna1761]

This is amazing! Thanks for finding, and going into this one, Paul! How often, if ever, are you able to get by the places that you've done an explore on, and revisit them? It would be interesting to put together, either a video album, or some sort of book, of the places that you've found- a "before and after", if you will, and the proceeds would help to defray the costs of the exploring- all of the travel:: gas, car maintenance, whatever fees you may have, and all of the other costs we all have no idea about. I'm not sure about other places, but here in the States, we are fascinated with places like this, and the other explores that you do, especially in someplace like Australia! Anyway, think about it, and thanks for this one- it is amazing. SDK.

[@marybethsmith6458]

That was a cool stone house. There are still some stone houses here in the U.S. There is one in the town I was born in and one of my ancestors built it. I was lucky enough to get to see inside before a couple bought and renovated it.

[@urbexindigo5164]

Wow Mary thanks for sharing that, I really would love to see some old photos of these places in their glory years just to see how life was lived in these places :-)

[@yanniwang]

Omg Australian urbex, so interesting to see stuff from your own country, very glad to have stumbled upon your channel. Subbed 💯💯💯

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Yalei thanks for watching and Subbing! Yes not many Aussies doing KZbin Urbex at all! :-)

[@vassilikiromanou8004]

Αmazing place, nice landscape, strong feelings about this old nice home and dangerous for the "visitors ". Bravo and "gia sou" from Greece

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Vassiliki thanks for watching :-) Yes I really enjoy going out into the country for these old homes. So glad this one is till standing :-)

[@williebeamish5879]

Great video. Loved the kitchen. Very very old. I have one of those kitchen cabinets restored in our farmhouse in US. Floor did look a bit dodgy as you said. Stay safe.

[@urbexindigo5164]

I was happy to see at least that cabinet still in there. A local viewer lives near this and said it was last lived in in the 50`s and only had a 30watt power supply which was for lighting basically. :-)

[@velmaramos2898]

Very nice love the veiw

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hey Velma, glad you enjoyed. Cheers for watching :-)

[@rshintadaniella193]

OMG ...big area guys but i like this place and old house❤💕

[@creeky2031]

Hi I’ve just found your channel, love your work! This beautiful house would it happen to be out passed two wells area? I’ve been past many times and always wondered what it would look like inside. Hopefully it’s the one I’m thinking of just beautiful!!

[@roystad8916]

That would've been a classy expensive home when it was built,tedious construction method using stone,seemed to be the go back then.Interesting the use of mini orb for ceiling sheets haven't seen that before,love the style of them old stone homes cool find cheers bud.👍🍻

[@lindadiaz3268]

Ah Australia, that answers my recent question😁

[@urbexindigo5164]

Hi Linda! :-) Yes sorry for the delay, I`m down here in Australia, this old one is in rural South Australia. :-) Thanks for watching :-)

[@shawnaharris1698]

Amazing!

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