The Bellows

The old bellows were stored in the loft of the old barn at Ballandean Station in SE Queensland.

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.