Hand Forged Lock

I visited this property with permission of the Owners in 2019

Wonderful efforts are being made to preserve these historic outbuildings into the future.  I love this impossible lock.

Happily there are still plenty of old timbers, rusty tin and layers of rich history to reference.

Old Ballandean Homestead comprises a c. 1870 residence, detached kitchen, creamery, killing shed, milking shed, yards, stables and remnants of a blacksmith’s shed and forge. It was the third head station constructed on Ballandean run, established c. 1840 in the New England district.

Ballandean was among the earliest pastoral runs taken up in that part of the north-eastern districts of New South Wales that later became Queensland. Some reports claim occupation as early as 1839.