Ramshackle and rundown. Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Bundyrumandcoke on 04-Aug-09. Waypoint GA1546

Once a 1940s style auto garage, Monty’s Garage Vintage Car Museum now houses large collection of over 70 restored vintage cars and trucks, 15 of which are displayed daily. Admire the cars on display or browse through the huge collection of auto memorabilia and a large range of vintage spare parts and equipment or watch the action in the workshop where an old car or truck will be undergoing a transformation.

Unfortunatly this museum is now closed and only the front can now be viewed.

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Found this old rundown house on a farm i visited recently. Hasn’t been used for many years.

I was driving through northern Tasmania and I found what qualifies for “Ramshackle and rundown” but in my opinion it’s also a gem. It’s something I would love to have and restore or rebuild in the same old style. Thanks for the cache

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The ramshackle building in my photo is a house which has been in a bad state of repair for many years. The house was subject to flooding six months ago. Everything is still inside the building muddy and ruined. The building will be demolished. Thanks for the cache Bundyrumandcoke

S41 14.243 E147 12.925 APPLE PACKING SHED

When I was a kid, that wasn't the day before yesterday,this apple packing shed was a going concern and the land behind was a flourishing apple orchard. My father knew the orchard owner so every year we would go and pick our own apples from the orchard. I think the European Common Market killed this orchard as there is no evidence of it except for this remaining packing shed.

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S41 14.186 E147 07.761 OLD HOUSE

This house near Karoola Tasmania was most probably someone's pride and joy where they lived and raised a family. Unfortunately it is now beyond a quick clean, polish and a repaint.

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The old ramshackle ruins are just south of Yalgoo,
called farmer Jacks ruins
It’d be great if there was some more interesting historical information on these.
If only the walls could tell the stories
-28.509314°, 116.560380°
Thanks for the Locationless Cache

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S 29° 39.883 E 153° 07.533 We found these old cattle yards and also a cache at the same spot TFTC

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We were brought here by a cache T’was Once Loved and it was quite obvious this house had once been cared for.
If only those walls could talk what amazing stories could be heard of pioneering days.
There is even still a chair out the front as if inviting us to come in for a cuppa and a chat.
Thanks for my daily cache Branyrumandcoke

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Hello Bundyrumandcoke thanks for the cache.

I was luck enough to be able to fly over to Tasman Island I spotted what is left of the winch shed that is at the top of the Haulage (a cable trolley system once used to bring supplies up vertical cliffs 300mt from sea level) at a spot called “The Whim”

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Found this abandoned building in Lawson

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Found this magnificent in decay Ramshackle and rundown bowser in Patchewollok this morning while visiting the solo and a couple of Virtual in the town.

Next time we visit, it will be after 3:00 pm when the pub opens so we can get a coffee - or something stronger - and hopefully see a more lively side of the town.

TFTC Bundyrumandcoke.

On our travels just outside Wellington, NSW, we spotted this ramshackle old home.
Thought this would be just the thing for this cache. And another for the current summer game.
Thanks for this cache.

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We are overseas on a cruise so I have to be content with Locationless for Geocaching Australia finds. On the islands of the Pacific there are lots of abandoned buildings which I am sometimes unsure whether they have surcummed to the elements or not been fully constructed. This building looked like a shop on Mare in Vanuatu

We have driven past this rundown farmhouse many times at Morwincha Queensland. Just love this pic of times gone by.. TFTC

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Came across this building whilst exploring the York Peninsular.

Thanks Bundyrumandcoke for creating this locationless.

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I love finding these old chimneys - as an archaeologist it just makes my fingers twitch wondering what will be in the ground! Would have loved to have taken a closer look at this one but think it was private property so wasn't game to hop the fence. Glad that I can log it in the States of the Nation game as a locationless. TFTC

I've had a list of the locationless caches in my phone just in case we happened upon any in time for the Summer Scavenger Series.

This one actually made me stop today and look at a place I've driven past thousands of times and never really knew about. This is a paddock in amongst suburbia in Yellalonga Park in Perth. The park runs through a large number of suburbs in the north metro area past lakes and historically relevant areas. This particular paddock is called Perry's Paddock (after Jack Perry who bred racehorses here at the start of the 20th century). The paddock was a sporting event for horse races and picnic days and likely large sports like cricket.

Thanks for making me take the time to stop and research this area properly. I hope to visit the nearby Cockman House during open hours at some point in the future.

Thanks for the cache!

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We discovered this sad old hall yesterday, whilst looking for a cache nearby of the same name.
I wonder how many old time dances and community functions were held here in its heyday.
It's most unlikely that this one will be restored, but in other places we've visited over the last couple of days, where small towns have renovated or rebuilt new halls, their town's seem to be flourishing.
Thanks for this Locationless cache. Two reasons to stop and stretch our legs here.

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Located on trip to North West of Tassie. Remains of convict built barracks at Stanley

We were wandering around the countryside a few days ago and happened by this run down shed and stock yards. They've certainly seen better days.

This cache was logged for States of the Nation game. Go Victoria.

Thanks BundyRum&Coke. (Personally, I prefer the red version, although UP is quite ok too, if served in small buckets )

This is certainly an ex-something. We'd pulled off the road to take some photos of cane bins - the other half of the team is writing an article about the history of cane movements around the Tweed, he wanted the photo of the 'modern' way of transporting cane as opposed to the barges, and tramway wagons of the past. As we drove away I spotted this pile of tin, pallings, and stumps. So I grabbed a photo. Interestingly when I got home and checked against Google Earth, there was nothing there. Its as if this little shed had just been dumped there. Its got me thinking hmmmmn. I wonder what is going on here.

Thanks for the locationless.

Found while geocaching in the Springwood area.

Has the 'hermit' abandoned his old house?

What about his nice boat?

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A rundown old farm house near Springfield in northern Tasmania. Place has seen better days and methinks the possums may have taken over the place.. thanks..!!

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Butchers - Wowan, QLD

A barely legible sign declares that this building was once a butchery. The building is in a very poor state of repair with the verandah ready to collapse. On the left hand side can be seen the business is on Don Street & can make out the word - Butchers but not the proprietor's name. On the right hand side can be seen the words Fresh Meat Daily, a registration & phone number. Automatic Telephone Dialing was introduced to Australia in 1976 so the business closed before then.

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Went out with kittykatch and Joolay for the SoN game and I saw this old cottage chimney and roof on the ground very ramshackle indeed. Forgot to take coords but not far from Currawang Church.

Barnawartha Railway Station, Victoria. Closed up, in need of painting, cactus' growing on the platform. Has white ants. Trains still pass through, but now don't stop.

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Looking for geocaches near by. Kambah woolshed in ACT

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Brayshaw's Hut, Namadgi National Park
Built in 1903, this two room cottage still stands and can be explored on the Settlers Track just off Boboyan Road in Namadgi National Park.
TFTC

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I've got a few photos of awesome ramshackle and rundown places, but can't lay my eyes on them right now, however, I did, fortunately, find this one among my snaps. This is located at Penrose (NSW). It's a little sad though seeing places in such disrepair when they could have been maintained and rented to people in need.

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South Fremantle Power Station

Casting an imposing shadow over C.Y. O'Connor beach is a decaying monument to our past and a stunning showcase of brutalist architecture. Closed in 1985, the South Fremantle Power Station now resembles a decrepit shell of its former glory, coated in a mosaic of urban art.

The abandoned South Fremantle Power Station in North Coogee was opened in 1951 after five years of construction to power a growing Perth and Fremantle metropolis. Employing over 250 people at its peak, the station was eventually closed after advances in technology (ironically at the now controversial Muja plant) deemed it uneconomical.
(Taken from Weekend Notes website)

Well off the beaten track at the junction of a couple of dirt roads in the Murray Mallee region of SA you will find the ramshackle and very quaint Claypans Hall. Built in 1906, and hardly touched since. Thanks Bundyrumandcoke for organising this locationless cache.

While attending the Alice Springs Experience event over Easter in Alice Springs we went out to do a cache at Albert Namatjira's house and it was such a disappointment. For such an iconic Australian name his house has been left to the elements. Certainly rundown and ramshackle. TFTL I will use this find as part of the States of the Nation games.

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Sadly neglected and falling apart this used to be a weekender for someone many years ago.

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This is an amazing old building at Freemans Reach near Windsor. It looks like a puff of wind would blow it over! Over the years of driving past it it looks like it is leaning more and more. It has so much character and is very photogenic.

*** Further info - May 2018 - This building recently fell down! ***

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An old building on my families property in Nthn NSW. this house started off its life about 1km down the road and was moved here when i was a young kid 30 years ago on the back of a trailer pulled by a Tractor. It ended up being a storage shed and shelter for dogs who used to life under it. The floor is now mostly missing and we sold some of the wall to someone chasing old timber. Somehow it is still standing on its wooden stilts but for how long

Isn't it ironic that after fire burns a house down, the only thing left standing is the fireplace and chimney.
Spotted in Blackwells La Bulla Victoria.


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The National Hotel (or whats left of it) in Kookynie.
Headed up this way quite often for work trips and took a quick detour through this semi-ghost town

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We came across another ruined farming enterprise whilst doing SEDANtary (GC1VFVB) in the Murray Mallee region of SA. It's sad how many of these old houses you see out in this area. Thanks Bundyrumandcoke for organising the locationless cache.

A rundown old farm house located in my traves, this one at Pontville near the Jordan River in southern Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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Hello Bundyrumandcoke thanks for the cache.

I was at Storeys Creek on the weekend and saw this old building so took a photo of it.


The Storys Creek Tin Mining Co was formed in 1882, the area being a remote miners’ camp – just a collection of simple huts and the mine plant – until 1925, when new houses for the staff, as well as a number of new huts for the workers, were also built.
The town of Rossarden was built to house the workers at the ‘Aberfoyle Tin No Liability’ mine, which started producing tin in September 1931. The township of Rossarden was built a mile from the mine site, in the mid 1930s.
By the early 1970s, Aberfoyle had control of both mines but a dramatic drop in metal prices in 1972 saw production drop at Storys Creek, all support facilities, administration and milling being provided at Rossarden. Forestwood Holdings bought the mine from Aberfoyle in April 1981, then closed all operations in February 1982. By October 1982 the town’s population had dropped from over 500 when the mine was going, to approximately 90.

Today Rossarden has around 60 residents. Storys Creek has only one permanent family, plus the Riverside High School outdoor centre, which has been operating since 1975.

Both towns offer striking mountain views of Ben Lomond. There are also wild deer to be seen in Rossarden, as well as many native animals and birds, and one can sometimes watch wedge-tail eagles soaring above the town.

Bundyrumandcoke thanks for the cache.

This is one of the two remaining Clarks Huts at Adamsfield although they are still waterproof, just.

There is no way you would want to rely on it for accommodation.

TFTC

An old timber farm house on its last legs on the rural outskirts of Riverside in northern Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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An abandoned brick residence at Salisbury Hills Road at Beaconsfield in northern Tasmania. A substantial old building, probably a mine manager's house, likely dates to the 1890's gold rushes of the area.. thanks..!!

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Kunanalling's Premier Hotel. In the early 1900's it was "THE" hotel to drink at.
Still makes a great landmark.
TFTC

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Ramshackle & Rundown Chateau Napier

Great Western Highway and Leura Mall Intersection
Leura, NSW

This once-famous Blue Mountains resort is indeed ramshackle, since it was never re-built after the huge 1957 bush fire.

Only some remnants remain, such as this gateway.

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Eurama Ruins
Great Western Highway
Faulconbridge, NSW

Drove through here with rogerw3 while geocaching and once again noticed several 'ramshackle and rundown' buildings.

Now that the entire site has finally been sold, I wonder what will happen?



Here's another one that I haven't logged as yet . . .

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Old Building
Main Street (Castlereagh Highway)
Capertee, NSW

Found this likely candidate on the main road through town, right across from the busy Royal Hotel!

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Found this fixer-upper on Kamillaroi Rd, up from Katoomba Falls Kiosk.

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Corner of Mid-Hartley Road and Granger Place
Hartley, NSW

Located in the beautiful Hartley Valley, with cliffs and mountains rising in the distance, this lonely homestead is indeed 'ramshackle and rundown' . . . no doubt about it.

There's a new bus shelter right in front of the house, but it doesn't look like anyone is living here and able to use it.

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This old house is in the main street of Lightning Ridge and is kept as a museum piece. You can visit it and walk inside.

Amazing how you can spot these things when you have a mental list of a dozen or so locationless caches in your head. I've driven past this spot over 100 times and never noticed it. Needs work!

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I was out walking in my own area looking State Survey Markers and capping munzees for my son, (he likes to sleep in). This house is on the Great Western Highway in Springwood. I would never have noticed it if I hadn't been out walking.

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Another great old ramshackled house on the way to...

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I've been passing this for years. Have enjoyed it for years.

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...and further down the road is this one...i love the spiral shape of the column holding up the...carport?

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This old shed has seen better days and fits the requirements for this cache. Spotted this one behind Sprenger's Produce at Haigslea, Qld.
Thanks Bundyrumandcoke

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#GA321 - 14:25; Out for a drive with the geofamily and we had called in to Weymouth to collect the information for what turned out to be an unsuccessful first to find attempt on a new multi in the area. This looks like a rundown and fallen down hayshed. Can't say it's unloved though, the sheep seem to like it! TFTC Bundyrumandcoke

Opposite Old Windsor Tebbutt Observatory
Stiles Street
Windsor, NSW



Found this one while searching (unsuccessfully) for an old location pin.

This old barn seems to fit the cache description . . .

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Old Settlers Cottage, Trunkey Creek.

Facing Goulburn Road this old hut as stood at this angle & in an ever deteriorating condition for the many years I have travelled this road, which is a short cut between the coast & Orange.

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An old shed that no longer sheds at Hobby's Yards. I was photographing a nearby church & its cemetery for Waymarking when I heard the familiar rasping sound of loose roofing iron. A shed or a basic residence but either way not long to go before it collapses.

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Spotted this one whilst at the Mega recently.

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This is an old disused dwelling in St.Arnaud.

Spotted this ramshackle and rundown old toilet block while doing cache maintenance in Katoomba, NSW.

Sure seems to 'fill the bill' for this Locationless!

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Found while geocaching in Glenbrook, NSW, in the Blue Mountains.

Looks like a shed together with an old car!



Definitely ramshackle!

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An old picnic hut near the Falls at Wentworth Falls, NSW . . .

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GCA 919 - 8481. I've driven past this "Ramshackle and Rundown" house in North Canberra many times so I finally stopped to grab the details for this find.

These are the ruins of the Gribble's house built back in the 1860s and 1870s. Its interesting that any of this has survived - especially the rammed earth walls - considering the amount of development thats happened out this way in the last 30 years.

I've attached some more info and a couple of pictures.

TFTC !!

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Springhurst, Victoria
S36 11.208 146 28.201
Detoured off the Hume Hwy today to grab the cache 'Western View' GC2ZQR0. Drove a little further down the road to turn around and came across this very old gem. Can just imagine that it was once someone's pride and joy.
Thanks.

Eden Flats - Eden
S18 38.800 E146 09.846
Pulled up under the trees in the park opposite this building. It is definitely in need of some TLC.
Thanks.

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. With a bit of help I managed a raft of locationless caches on this trip. Lots of fun. 967

Thanks.
Albida

Anyone that was into cars in the late 70's will have seen this ruin, it gets a cameo in the background of the first Mad Max Movie.

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Found this house close to Yorketown SA

Has seen better days.

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May be a bit rundown but I still like this place.

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A rundown house in Charlotte NC

Spotted this old Queenslander - ramshackle and rundown - waiting for a little TLC

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This old shed is ramshackle and rundown, and even appears to be available for sale if anyone wants such a thing. It is located near to Forcett in Tasmania.

Old Sandstone Cottage
John Whitton Memorial Park
Emu Heights, NSW



A great find! This dilapidated but very interesting old sandstone cottage is surrounded by a fence and quite a few trees, but it's still easy to check it out.

The park are unfortunately more than a bit unkempt. Although the cottage will probably never be fixed up, nor should it be, it would be in order to mow the park and tidy it up a bit!

A GC traditional is nearby . . .

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Ruined Modern House near Eurama Ruins
Great Western Highway
Faulconbridge, NSW



If it weren't enough to find the famous 'Eurama Castle' ruins, rogerw3 and I found the nearby 'new' house in ruins as well!

Sure does meet the requirements of this Locationless . . .

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Dilapidated Building
Ingar Fire Trail
Wentworth Falls, NSW



Found the remains of this building -- use unknown -- while tracking down bikerbuddy's 'Hidden Fortress' geocache.

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Spotted this old place near these co ords while out caching during the Mega event - it would have been gorgeous in its hay day ...

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Stopped to look for a cache and got a two for one. Bonus.

This building is located at Snake Creek near Adelaide River NT and was used during WW11. Very interesting war time history around this area.

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This is the former Strathallan Store in Vic, 14km South of Echuca. First pic found on google maps, taken in 2008, the second is one I took in Jan 11.

Clearly the wind got a bit too strong at some stage.

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An old farm building in NZ.

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On the Old Harrietville Rd just out of Germantown sits this rather dilapidated farmhouse.

There is also some great remnants of old machinery too.

TFTL

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Nearly got bogged finding a traditional cache and then spotted this poor sad house on our way back to the highway at Tunbridge.

This unoccupied house inNo Where Else Road, about 5km south-west of Sheffield, Tasmania is another of a number of unoccupied houses in the area which are in significant disrepair.

Some more beautiful old farm buildings.

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Not sure what this was.

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Have to admire these and the hard work that went into them.

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Another place that has seen better days.Only the chimney left.

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An old place on the Hindmarsh back road that could do with a lick of paint.

Shame to see these falling apart.

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WanderingAus wandered by, taking a slightly roundabout way to get home from Bruce Rock after the annual Back To The Bush Veterans Reunion, and doing some cache maintenance and cache hunting on the way.

GC3409R Monolithic by Grammie & Grumpy was the only cache within 60 CroKs of Bruce Rock that I hadn't found, and it was "sort of" on the way to my cache GC20FH5 WanAus 155 - LKA Kellerberrin. On the way between the two caches I spotted this Ramshackle and Rundown house beside the Kwolyin West Road about five CroKs north of Kokerbin Rock.



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T4TH Bundyrumandcoke
Keith

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Have always admired these old buildings-now I have a reason to take photos.

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Used to drive past this old house every day when we lived near here. It's gradually getting more and more rundown. Very sad! Someone must have loved it once upon a time.

WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 110 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, after 11 weeks in Darwin and a couple of weeks meandering across and down we were finally heading out of Queensland into New South Wales.

As GC16GFK Barringun Border Ghost Town by sacada loomed on the horizon (well, on the TomTom actually) I noticed the entire parking bay on the West side of the road as well as almost all of the East side of the road (which didn't look like a parking bay) were full of muggle vehicles and muggles all enjoying their cuppas and gas-bagging. I decided we should continue on into Barringun, have morning tea, then return to hunt down the cache.

We continued on into the "Ghost Town" of Barringun to use the facilities and have some morning tea, and I spotted a windmill in the middle of the parking area at the Bush Tucker Inn, an opportunity for a find of GA1095 Windmills - So Many about in so many styles by Team GraMon.

After taking a photo of the windmill I discovered that "the facilities" were only for the use of guests at The Bush Tucker Inn, so we returned to the highway and parked opposite the (still operating) pub. While there I noticed this Ramshackle and Rundown Shed just off the highway.



After morning tea we returned to the border and we had the parking bay to ourselves, and I walked over and made a very quick and easy GAFF 0 find thanks to a very colourful telltale.

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Keith

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WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 107 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip. It was our last day in the caravan park at Charleville, and the WanderingMrs mentioned to the manager that we had visited Morven and seen the hut made from flattened out kerosene tins near the museum there. These huts were a common sight during the years of the great depression. The manager then told the WanderingMrs how to get to a large shed made from flattened out 44 gallon drums (now known as 200 litre drums). We drove out the back gate of the caravan park, then followed a track across a couple of paddocks and finally came across the ramshackle old shed. Of course any dwelling back in those days had an outside dunny, and this Ramshackle and Rundown Dunny wasn't far away.



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Keith

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WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 107 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip. It was our last day in the caravan park at Charleville, and the WanderingMrs mentioned to the manager that we had visited Morven and seen the hut made from flattened out kerosene tins near the museum there. These huts were a common sight during the years of the great depression. The manager then told the WanderingMrs how to get to a large shed made from flattened out 44 gallon drums (now known as 200 litre drums). We drove out the back gate of the caravan park, then followed a track across a couple of paddocks and finally came across this ramshackle old shed.



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T4TH Bundyrumandcoke
Keith

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