A shame this house is no longer cared for 😢 . It would have played host to so many family chats, games nights (board games) and much more. Keep on making awesome content my friend and ignore the armchair lawyers 😍 💯
Hi Drew :-) Cheers mate, yep this old place would hold many memories from a few generations back in the day no doubt. The pigeons can squabble about squatters rights now :-)
I have lived and worked in the building industry all my life in SA. Unfortunately, you see well-built beautiful old homes like this one often abandoned. Usually, the better farming land was on reactive soil. Thus, you see huge homes like this one. Reactive soil causes constant and ongoing damage to them. Eventually, they reach a stage that the damage goes beyond viability. It's a shame to see those lead light windows left to rot. Great video mate
Hi greyhairedphantom4038 :-) I agree with your comments for sure. A catch 22 for a very grand old home. Adelaide metropolitan is built on reactive clay soil which accounts for Adelaide stone built homes having the most walls cracks in Australia :-)
What do you mean by reactive soil? And what kind of damage does reactive soil do to a home? Is that why there are often huge cracks that go through a wall or two in some of these old homes? I am from the US and I’ve never heard the term reactive soil- unless you mean soil that is radioactive? Or soil that has been compromised by pesticides used by the farmers? I know that is five questions in a row but I am curious. Lol!
@@ginger-rr5qn Clay soil is not contaminated in any way, there is just a lot of shrinkage when it dries out and swelling when wet in winter so therefore the old homes foundations can't cope with the movement and cracks appear. Hope that makes it a bit clearer. New home a now built on a cement slab which seems to have solved the problem mostly.
I'm thinking this place was last inhabited, at the very least, in the early 2000s. Why? The 'compact' small satellite dish on the roof. Prior to 2K they were quite large arrays, sometimes 8ft in diameter!
Oh Paul! I don’t know what’s more painful for me to see, a beautiful old home filled with remnants of peoples lives, left to rot, or one that’s been emptied, then stripped of all its decorative pieces and eventually demolished. The owners of the home should at least allow an expert to remove all the gorgeous lead lights and take them away. Why wait for an unhappy soul to shatter them, to fulfill their need to destroy beautiful art. So sad, so very sad. Thanks again for sharing. ❤️
What an absolute beauty that home must have been when lived in. It looks as though the last folks who lived there left behind many things, and then more stuff was added afterward. But from the way the VHS player, tapes, cassettes, and a few CD's were stored as though left by the last folks, I would say it was last lived in in the early 1990's, just at the dawn of the CD, but before the DVD. Anyway, thanks for another great explore!!!
The energy saving lights in the first room suggest it still had power connected in the early 2000's. Few things from that period. Probably an old person lived there that couldn't keep it maintained and was in disrepair when they moved out
Watching it again tells me that the person who lived there had links to Scotland. The LP of The Grenadier Guards and the Royal Scots Dragoons and others underneath it, plus the Scottish shortbread biscuit tin next to the largest fireplace. Those may have been tartan tins on the floor of the hallway as you left that room.
Would've been beautiful in its heyday. Unfortunately the fieldstone houses are subject to saltdamp. Looks like it's snake boot time. Look out for those brownies. Probably had a dining room and sitting room. Yep old clothes dryer
Hi paul , you showed another great find. You put all yourself into these buties. I don't want you to give up your interest in showing us these treasures. Cheers deb
Every week i wait to see another abandoned house to explore and this place is definitely another great find here with this old house and I see that the pigeons have since made it their home and there are a whole lot of pigeons everywhere and pesky flies as all over as well, I'm always surprised to see how much that they leave behind and this is another great empty house with the garage and shop out back that was abandoned can't wait for the next episode next week Thank You.🇦🇺🇦🇺👋🤠👋🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hi Julia :-) Yep sometimes it is just worth it to stop and listen foe a while. WHile I walk around and take still photos I really try and soak up the atmosphere too. :-)
I'm surprised how many of these old houses have so much stuff left inside them tbh.You would assume someone in the family would of cleaned up after the last person left.Its like someone left and no one cared.Sad.
What an awesome old house! It certainly has been sitting there unlived in for decades, but would have been a beautiful house back in the day. That countryside looks sublime! What a wonderful location and awesome explore! Thanks for sharing Paul ❤
You obviously weren't the stinky one. Between the bird poop and the dead fox. That is a nice breeding ground for fly's. Be careful in their, the bird poop and other stuff. Could make you really sick. You need to wear a mask and gloves. Another explorer I like to watch. Did the other day. I could understand him and he stayed safe.😊
🌟what a beautiful old gem love love love it a lot of history if those walls could talk! Thinking of going on a road trip to see these places and get a real feel of what it might have been like to live there definitely on the bucket list for sure. Thank you for showing us around. 😊🌟❤️x
Without a really good filter mask and gloves, it was prudent not to move stuff around and disturb surfaces. Such conditions make it hard to see what kind of books and music helped pass the time after hard work. It lets us get some sense of the people. The large set of hardback Reader's Digest was the rare clue. Other than those ceilings you noted, it doesn't look like this one has been changed much from its origins. I imagine I could magically clean all the surfaces and be transported to the early 1900's. Thanks again for the time travel!
Old mate's inhaling all that pigeon sht in a poorly ventilated area asif it's not toxic 😂. Also, I don't understand how this happens in Australia. vacate your own property and see how long it takes for the council to reclaim it right? Can anyone explain to me how it's still there? Surely nobody is paying the council rates and property tax anymore.
Probably on a million acres. Someone Probably owns it and has one animal per 10000 acres. Probably a good house somewhere else on the property, or they don't live there and only come in a few times a year
Another mysterious journey Paul - It's amazing just how important the use-by dates on food packaging can be for weaving a time frame to a story - putting the pieces together of a puzzle - at least it gives a glimpse of when it was possbily last inhabited. Heart breaking to see how much damage the birds have caused & the immense hazards of even attempted in cleaning it all up . The poor little fox. Always love seeing the wall paper on the old homes & things from the past. 💞
Really nice explore, thanks Paul. I found some online reviews of that model treadmill from 2016, perhaps the would-be renovator wanted to get some exercise. At least we know that whoever was last there, they had class as they had a cat, anyone who cares for animals is good in my eyes. The replacement roofing seemed popular in the sixties, along with those chunky big square gutters. Really interesting stuff.
Hi Matt :-) Yeah mate hard to believe someone was in there having a go with repairs 7 years ago but they obviously were maybe just staying a few days here and there in a row. Cheers for watching again :-)
Sometimes farmers get used to improvising. They build their own sheds & coops & troughs & simply extend into making showers etc for indoors, especially if money is very short, but sometimes just because they think- "I can make that for myself. I do not need anyone to do that".
This one is absolutely beautiful such a shame to see them all rot away like its also amazing to see how much damage birds can do My parents brought an abandoned farm here in W.A and they renovated it its a 1896 build they have done a brilliant job of the Reno's if ur ever in w.a ill show u the house
As always, thanks Paul. I agree with you ... "they just gave up and now the pigeons own it." I find it sad that so many farming people have had to leave their properties in that way. I'm sure a number of items in the kitchen, like the toaster, bread maker etc would have been usable elsewhere ... and that's only the kitchen. What a great fluke find!
Hi Ken, cheers for watching mate. I agree it is sad to think these homes are just a marker in time now but that is what makes them so interesting as well to figure it all out :-)
Another absolute Gem mate what a awesome find. This one stands in a decaying mess of pigeons, but a nice place indeed. I dont know if you noticed this but when you were panning through the last bit of that shed it looked like there was a slug gun or rifle not sure. But this would of been a happy farm homestead in its day I can only imagine the family would of loved her cheers mate.
LOVING the old beauties Love the lead lights ,Feeling sad 😢 that the old homesteads are left to fall apart . ,soooo much history .THANK YOU so much for the tour . Do you think these lovely homesteads are Heritage listed.,? your spot on that was a clothes dryer I
A beautiful huge homstead in it's first days, later to be occupied by hoarders that weren't the tidiest. The last few or single to live there were in the smaller portions shown at 45:33. (My perspective) One of your better tours Paul, lots to see there. Thanks for showing us! 🤠👍 🇺🇸 I'd love to visit Australia but I'm not sure of those in your face flies. Maybe in an off season.
This one has me confused! As you walked towards the front the roof looked almost new, although could see the large cracks in the walls. A lot of those beautiful windows are intact, so when you got inside I wasn't prepared for the amount of bird damage. Wonder if they fixed the roof after years of it being open to the elements? Loved the three fireplaces and this would have been quite classy when it was built.
These places could be sold off to people who may never get into the housing market (dodgy market anyway) now people who may be be into an alternate lifestyle, wow they can grow anything (and probably will). This joint is not far off being liveable, probably as good as some people are renting. Keep in mind that somebody owns this joint, eg; a family trust fund and or disgruntled relatives who missed out on the whole inheritance. The local council knows who owns these places and collect the rates, although it is in the middle of nowhere it is in a local council jurisdiction so rates are being paid, if not it would have been sold years ago. Thankyou Paul great show, being an old guy that travelled most eastern states of Australia (Vic, NSW, QLD, some SA) as a country representative from the 70’s to 2011 notice many places like this in my years. Bruce.
@@brujonpatrick4779 I agree that it is a shame to see so many of these lovely places deteriorate, while some of them could be made good. Not so sure about this one though, as there a lot of wall problems in multiple places. I wonder if the relative(s) who now own the house have tried to sort some of it out to stop any further damage. I am convinced the roof has been sorted after the pigeon damage as there doesn't seem to be any birds living there now. The original owner may have moved out either through illness or age and nobody was in a position to sort it out while still alive. A lot of these old houses probably have similar sad stories and if Australia is anything like the UK, it takes solicitors forever and a day to sort out even with a will. If the person died intestate it can take years here (very lucrative business for the legal 'profession') to make sure who the beneficiaries are and they are in no hurry. Another thing to consider is that this one would take a lot of money to make it habitable (if the walls can be made good) and someone who would dream of living there may not be able to afford to make it structurally safe. P.S. I stand corrected - have just watched again and missed the pigeon in the loft space the first time!
When you were in the living room I saw vhs tapes and a vcr but no TV, hmm. When your in the kitchen, that is a long walk to answer the front door. I didn't see a kitchen sink.
Urbex Indingo thanks for sharing this video about Huge Edwardian Farmhouse full of stuff and sheds/They just gave up and now the pigeons own it i agree with you my friend i think the family slowly died away and the new genration gave up and left and that is always sad my friend and i am i am from the U.S.A and i will always enjoy your channel and show support and thanks and God Bless.
hey paul how are you going mate wow looking at this grand old farm house looks like it goes back a long way away and most likely would have been beautiful in its prime time and them pidgeons dont give much consideration were the poop all over the place and lots of it a lot of stuff left behind to hard to see most with all that pidgeon poop all over it looked like this old farmhouse was on a very large acridge of property paul very nice find paul thank you for sharing another great video paul cheers mate.
Would have loved to see this gorgeous home in her heyday!! Love those windows. Looks like whoever just up & left, or passed. Can't help but wonder if they were remodeling or upgrading when they left with the random items in rooms, I remember a similar mess when I remodeled eons ago. I wonder if another explorer was there recently, it's odd that a newspaper would be open to the date randomly..... It was also pretty clean.
Love love the art deco ceilings .reminding me of the good old days 👍.Shame so much junk would love to see the homesteads as they were 🥲.. Have you ever. Gone through the floorboards .?👍🇦🇺
Definitely a pressed tin roof upgrade, you could actually see the original old Galv roof from inside looking up. Probably done in the late 70 they always look great forever, and they are generally screwed straight to the old roof just like my old maisonette
Thank you Paul for an intriguing explore, where you stumbled across a beautiful old gem, wi†h the distinctive Federation and stone facade, graced internally with original Edwardian fireplace surrounds and decorative ceilings. Very little updates have been made to the home since the late 1970s and early 1980s, judging by the wallpapers and kitchen appliances. Hopefully this historic Edwardian homestead can be saved and restored back to glory.
Would have been a lovely place back in the day. The beautiful ceiling panels defo removed, they are not spread all over the floor. Wish you had your gloves with you so you could pick up and turn over a few things, books, cassettes etc. Great explore.
Yeah. This place used to be an early detox and fitness centre (with all the gym bikes and nice shower after ! Saxa Salt to replace electrolytes too !) Had to close due to covid.🚿🚴♂
The only reason you found a box dated 2018. Would be squatters.Its probably been at least 25 years since it was occupied. Too bad it became a dumping ground.
Yes flies are sooo annoying. And it does not matter how much you spray they just go from bad to worse. And some of them bite as well. Ceiling is neat. This was a nice house in its days.
This one is hard to pick. I know some farmers that have the old house but again due to the cracking of the walls they turn it into storage and build a new one. But this looks different. It has the dish on the roof so that says it's only probably since the late 1990's to 2000's that this has been abandoned but the bird poo and inside roof say different. It's a hard one to put a date on when it was last occupied.
Geez! The outside of that house was beautiful, but as for the inside ... you're a much braver soul than I am. I would have been BAD if it had been abandoned in a neat and tidy condition, but that squalor is begging for a bulldozer. You needed a hazmat suit for this one.
Thank you for sharing your discovery of this old beauty, Paul. ❤❤✌️ The enclosure that you thought might have been a pig had a low hanging feeder in the covered part, maybe for piglets? Although it looked more like a fowl feeder. Chickens? There was not even a remnant of roosting boxes for hens. Ducks, perhaps? 🤔
So much bird poop! That house has been abandoned for decades! It amazes me how things that were once treasured by families like photos are now discarded and the memories forgotten. We have boxes of family photos, I have no clue who the people are.
Hello Paul. Thanks for another great video. I was waiting for you to put out another video. Now my Saturday is complete. I don't think anything, ( the furniture ), can be saved in this old house. Well, maybe some parts of the house. As always, be safe and be careful. See ya in the next explore.
Half of my mind is screaming to get things out of there and not let it all rot, and the other half is screaming that people leave such a damn mess anywhere we go.= SDK
I'm sure it was at one time a beautiful home. It looked like an older man lived there, maybe in hopes of fixing it up some day, but became a pack rat. Beautiful stained glass and fireplaces and a lot of bird poo on top of everything. I agree it takes decades to reach that level of poo.
That's a shame that its been let go like it has because it was a nice family home. Birdie poo central and yes its hard to work out what's nesting material or household contents. LOL There's junk in there from the 30s onwards. the roofing, here in NZ was known as Decromastic style pressed galv steel with fine gravel attached to it. late 50s,Early 60s onward. There was an old ribbed enamel sink bench outside and i'm guessing that may have been the original one along with a bath by the back door. Inside that last shed and pen, It was a chicken coop. there was a dirty orange bird feeder to your right as you walked in. low to the ground. Id agree with you last occupied late 2018 but im thinking prior to that 80s and then there wasn't any sets of furniture after the 70s in the lounge and a vcr but no tv.. The kitchen and most of the wall paper early 70s. Most of the rooms i couldnt tell if they had lino or carpet. LOL that place has been well picked over.
I would say that its a deceased estate and the owner went to hospital and never came back. Relatives would find it very hard to sell way out in the middle of nowhere and to many repairs to have been done .
How horrific! The Mackintosh style stained windows and the fireplace surround are the only things that "look" valuable. Everything else is so messy it is impossible to tell.
Great commentary Paul. A beautifully built old home. I like it better when it's not filled with junk and all the modern rubbish. I suppose it gives you a timeline of its history though. I'd say that the most recent occupants were hoarders. Couldn't throw anything away. But if you look past all the stuff you can see a home of its time. Built during the reign of King Edward. Windows with amazing leadlight. High ceilings and unique ceilings. Set in wide open farmland. Thanks for bringing it to us.
Its a real shame those leadlight window are left to rot and there is a beautiful fireplace in the house to .if there going to rot what a shame someone cant buy them or use in a renovation of a old house .
Okay kind of a date because of the Vodka bottle. Jelzin Vodka is a French vodka named after Boris Yelzin, Russia's first president. The Vodka was developed in the mid 1990's and in the early 2000's exported to Australia. The company was bought by a wine company (GCF Spirits) in the late 2000's and the name of the Vodka, Jelzin was changed to Divine Vodka. So that bottle at best was made before 2010.
That was a very big home, and I thought that was strange I saw metal roof inside but what looked like tile outside. I think they were Decrabond Aluminium and they went over the old metal roof and were weak as piss to walk on and they would dint. That old drier thing looks like what we used at school to dry our developed 35 MM films. Speaking of foxes one or maybe 2 got in and killed the old guy next door's 8 chooks 3 were done in over in my back yard. They were intact and nothing eaten of them at all.
Gday Steviebboy :-) Yeah those tin tiles are on a lot of suburbian homes too, I dont think they look as good a corrugated tin roof with a bit of rust showing :-) Geez sounds like the foxes were hunting for fun? Cheers for watching mate
How did you miss the rifle in the first shed after the house and that's not the original roofing over the house the corrugated metal what it looks like to me as someone tried to go in there and tried to renovate and realized it was just too much they put the corrugated roof over the house they put the new metal tiles on the roof on the shed because you noticed there's a lot of nails and roofing and all kinds of material and you went back into the house noticed the replace ceiling but you didn't notice the fluorescent light up in that replace ceiling and the corrugated roof over the house because you didn't noticed the wood up above does not match the rod and decay of the rest of the building
I get really concerned you don't wear suitable masks and gloves whilst in the old homes the pidgeons have taken over and been pooping for years! I know people get bad lung conditions down the track from inhaling the dust from old poo. Please consider wearing a suitable mask so you don't have any nasty illness later in life. Great explore of another grand old house , l have never seen an old clothes dryer like that before, very interesting to see.🦘🇦🇺🥺😊
I wonder if the roof has been torn down because all that bird poop was up there? Then they planned to slowly put a new one up. The beams looked in fairly good condition? Cant believe how much mess birds can make. Quite disgusting really.
More likely collapsed from the weight and moisture from all the bird poop. It's only weeks till pigeons move in once humans move out, and then places are destroyed in only a couple of years.
A shame this house is no longer cared for 😢 . It would have played host to so many family chats, games nights (board games) and much more. Keep on making awesome content my friend and ignore the armchair lawyers 😍 💯
Hi Drew :-) Cheers mate, yep this old place would hold many memories from a few generations back in the day no doubt. The pigeons can squabble about squatters rights now :-)
I have lived and worked in the building industry all my life in SA. Unfortunately, you see well-built beautiful old homes like this one often abandoned. Usually, the better farming land was on reactive soil. Thus, you see huge homes like this one.
Reactive soil causes constant and ongoing damage to them. Eventually, they reach a stage that the damage goes beyond viability. It's a shame to see those lead light windows left to rot. Great video mate
Hi greyhairedphantom4038 :-) I agree with your comments for sure. A catch 22 for a very grand old home. Adelaide metropolitan is built on reactive clay soil which accounts for Adelaide stone built homes having the most walls cracks in Australia :-)
What do you mean by reactive soil? And what kind of damage does reactive soil do to a home? Is that why there are often huge cracks that go through a wall or two in some of these old homes? I am from the US and I’ve never heard the term reactive soil- unless you mean soil that is radioactive? Or soil that has been compromised by pesticides used by the farmers? I know that is five questions in a row but I am curious. Lol!
@@ginger-rr5qn Clay soil is not contaminated in any way, there is just a lot of shrinkage when it dries out and swelling when wet in winter so therefore the old homes foundations can't cope with the movement and cracks appear. Hope that makes it a bit clearer. New home a now built on a cement slab which seems to have solved the problem mostly.
just picture it back when it was lived in how beautiful it would of been and I agree don't usually see hallways so wide
Cheers Kim ! :-)
I'm thinking this place was last inhabited, at the very least, in the early 2000s. Why? The 'compact' small satellite dish on the roof. Prior to 2K they were quite large arrays, sometimes 8ft in diameter!
The place is HUGE , they don't make them like they use too , Magnificent 🇦🇺 🦘
Beautiful windows
Oh Paul! I don’t know what’s more painful for me to see, a beautiful old home filled with remnants of peoples lives, left to rot, or one that’s been emptied, then stripped of all its decorative pieces and eventually demolished.
The owners of the home should at least allow an expert to remove all the gorgeous lead lights and take them away. Why wait for an unhappy soul to shatter them, to fulfill their need to destroy beautiful art. So sad, so very sad.
Thanks again for sharing. ❤️
It must have been a lovely home st one time,, always like seering the coloured glass.
Loved your comment about your good hygiene and the flies! Made my day. Thank you, as always, for taking time to make these great videos!
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Where is the farm house 🏘️ and are any for sale it is sad to see no attempt to save these farms
What an absolute beauty that home must have been when lived in. It looks as though the last folks who lived there left behind many things, and then more stuff was added afterward. But from the way the VHS player, tapes, cassettes, and a few CD's were stored as though left by the last folks, I would say it was last lived in in the early 1990's, just at the dawn of the CD, but before the DVD. Anyway, thanks for another great explore!!!
The energy saving lights in the first room suggest it still had power connected in the early 2000's. Few things from that period. Probably an old person lived there that couldn't keep it maintained and was in disrepair when they moved out
Wow awesome old place 😎👍 love the history of those old farm houses 🏘️🏡 it must have been very grand in its day
A nice old farmhouse. What a shame it didn't get restored completely. It would have been so grand back in its day. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, MM :)
Glad you enjoyed it MM would have been a huge task to keep going to bring it back. Maybe they passed away who knows. Cheers :-)
@urbexindigo5164 Yes, a huge effort time and money. Yes, maybe they passed away or simply just passed by..
Beautiful ceiling rose , beautiful fire place nice stained glass windows. Another great find & explore thanks for sharing paul
Glad you enjoyed it guys, it certainly still had some charm amongst all the decay :-) Cheers for watching
Watching it again tells me that the person who lived there had links to Scotland. The LP of The Grenadier Guards and the Royal Scots Dragoons and others underneath it, plus the Scottish shortbread biscuit tin next to the largest fireplace. Those may have been tartan tins on the floor of the hallway as you left that room.
Great observations LWF :-) And there was a Dr Pat tobacco tin also! :-)
Hello Paul. What a great find. Such a grand place. Thank you and take care. ❤
Would've been beautiful in its heyday. Unfortunately the fieldstone houses are subject to saltdamp. Looks like it's snake boot time. Look out for those brownies. Probably had a dining room and sitting room. Yep old clothes dryer
Hi paul , you showed another great find. You put all yourself into these buties. I don't want you to give up your interest in showing us these treasures. Cheers deb
Hi Deb :-) Cheers for the great support. I dont think I will get tired of these old homes! :-)
I would have to have seen this in its glory!!!😮
My favorites are the windows, fireplace, and the ceiling medallion. Awesome explore🎉
Every week i wait to see another abandoned house to explore
and this place is definitely another great find here with this old
house and I see that the pigeons have since made it their home
and there are a whole lot of pigeons everywhere and pesky flies
as all over as well, I'm always surprised to see how much that
they leave behind and this is another great empty house with the
garage and shop out back that was abandoned can't wait for the
next episode next week Thank You.🇦🇺🇦🇺👋🤠👋🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hi Roger :-) Cheers for the support and for watching again :-)
Love the sound of the breeze through the trees it’s quite restful yet restless too
Reminds me of the sound of the sea also 👍
Hi Julia :-) Yep sometimes it is just worth it to stop and listen foe a while. WHile I walk around and take still photos I really try and soak up the atmosphere too. :-)
I love the floor plan of this one. Beautiful inside and out. Grand old lady. Looked like an old level in that box in the shed too.
I'm surprised how many of these old houses have so much stuff left inside them tbh.You would assume someone in the family would of cleaned up after the last person left.Its like someone left and no one cared.Sad.
What an awesome old house! It certainly has been sitting there unlived in for decades, but would have been a beautiful house back in the day. That countryside looks sublime! What a wonderful location and awesome explore! Thanks for sharing Paul ❤
Awesome home in its day. Thank you!!❤
You obviously weren't the stinky one. Between the bird poop and the dead fox. That is a nice breeding ground for fly's. Be careful in their, the bird poop and other stuff. Could make you really sick. You need to wear a mask and gloves. Another explorer I like to watch. Did the other day. I could understand him and he stayed safe.😊
Cheers Mava. Thanks for watching again :-)
Another beautiful old home. Can just imagine how it looked back in the day. That hallway was spectacular!
Pigeons and other birds can really make a mess.
May have been saving newspapers for fire start kindling.
🌟what a beautiful old gem love love love it a lot of history if those walls could talk! Thinking of going on a road trip to see these places and get a real feel of what it might have been like to live there definitely on the bucket list for sure. Thank you for showing us around. 😊🌟❤️x
Glad you enjoyed it Megan and yes the rural areas of SA hold many great old gems to be admired! Cheers for watching again :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 thank you so much I can’t wait to check them out soon. :-)
Without a really good filter mask and gloves, it was prudent not to move stuff around and disturb surfaces. Such conditions make it hard to see what kind of books and music helped pass the time after hard work. It lets us get some sense of the people. The large set of hardback Reader's Digest was the rare clue. Other than those ceilings you noted, it doesn't look like this one has been changed much from its origins. I imagine I could magically clean all the surfaces and be transported to the early 1900's. Thanks again for the time travel!
Hi Judith! :-) Oh what I would give to go back for a day to these these old homes in their prime! :-)
Paul i love how u verbally try to figure out the mystery to the history❤another banga,thanx mate
Old mate's inhaling all that pigeon sht in a poorly ventilated area asif it's not toxic 😂.
Also, I don't understand how this happens in Australia. vacate your own property and see how long it takes for the council to reclaim it right? Can anyone explain to me how it's still there? Surely nobody is paying the council rates and property tax anymore.
Probably on a million acres. Someone Probably owns it and has one animal per 10000 acres. Probably a good house somewhere else on the property, or they don't live there and only come in a few times a year
So great to hear from you again, we love your work. Central California watching
Another mysterious journey Paul - It's amazing just how important the use-by dates on food packaging can be for weaving a time frame to a story - putting the pieces together of a puzzle - at least it gives a glimpse of when it was possbily last inhabited. Heart breaking to see how much damage the birds have caused & the immense hazards of even attempted in cleaning it all up . The poor little fox. Always love seeing the wall paper on the old homes & things from the past. 💞
Really nice explore, thanks Paul. I found some online reviews of that model treadmill from 2016, perhaps the would-be renovator wanted to get some exercise. At least we know that whoever was last there, they had class as they had a cat, anyone who cares for animals is good in my eyes. The replacement roofing seemed popular in the sixties, along with those chunky big square gutters. Really interesting stuff.
Hi Matt :-) Yeah mate hard to believe someone was in there having a go with repairs 7 years ago but they obviously were maybe just staying a few days here and there in a row. Cheers for watching again :-)
Maybe the whiskas was for the fox. Lol
Sometimes farmers get used to improvising. They build their own sheds & coops & troughs & simply extend into making showers etc for indoors, especially if money is very short, but sometimes just because they think- "I can make that for myself. I do not need anyone to do that".
Beautiful old home “pig pen” is a chook house chicken feeder was hanging in enclosed area. 🐓. Would of been a stunning home in it’s day. Thankyou 😊
Unbelievable what those pigeons do!!!! Great explore!!😊😊😊😊
Is this what is considered the outback? Such beautiful places, but in the middle of nowhere
Nope. This is just rural farming areas ..outback is really inland and isolated. Mainly desert territory
This one is absolutely beautiful such a shame to see them all rot away like its also amazing to see how much damage birds can do
My parents brought an abandoned farm here in W.A and they renovated it its a 1896 build they have done a brilliant job of the Reno's if ur ever in w.a ill show u the house
As always, thanks Paul. I agree with you ... "they just gave up and now the pigeons own it." I find it sad that so many farming people have had to leave their properties in that way. I'm sure a number of items in the kitchen, like the toaster, bread maker etc would have been usable elsewhere ... and that's only the kitchen. What a great fluke find!
Hi Ken, cheers for watching mate. I agree it is sad to think these homes are just a marker in time now but that is what makes them so interesting as well to figure it all out :-)
Another absolute Gem mate what a awesome find. This one stands in a decaying mess of pigeons, but a nice place indeed. I dont know if you noticed this but when you were panning through the last bit of that shed it looked like there was a slug gun or rifle not sure. But this would of been a happy farm homestead in its day I can only imagine the family would of loved her cheers mate.
Cheers mate. Yeah this one is far from its prime but still hold the charm and scars we all love in these places! Cheers for watching again :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 it was a awesome place mate so much history in that old place well done cheers
LOVING the old beauties Love the lead lights ,Feeling sad 😢 that the old homesteads are left to fall apart . ,soooo much history .THANK YOU so much for the tour . Do you think these lovely homesteads are Heritage listed.,? your spot on that was a clothes dryer I
A beautiful huge homstead in it's first days, later to be occupied by hoarders that weren't the tidiest. The last few or single to live there were in the smaller portions shown at 45:33.
(My perspective)
One of your better tours Paul, lots to see there. Thanks for showing us!
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I'd love to visit Australia but I'm not sure of those in your face flies.
Maybe in an off season.
Hi John! :-) Glad you enjoyed mate and yes the cooler months mid year would be best for no flys hanging around! :-) Thanks for watching
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This one has me confused! As you walked towards the front the roof looked almost new, although could see the large cracks in the walls. A lot of those beautiful windows are intact, so when you got inside I wasn't prepared for the amount of bird damage. Wonder if they fixed the roof after years of it being open to the elements? Loved the three fireplaces and this would have been quite classy when it was built.
These places could be sold off to people who may never get into the housing market (dodgy market anyway) now people who may be be into an alternate lifestyle, wow they can grow anything (and probably will). This joint is not far off being liveable, probably as good as some people are renting. Keep in mind that somebody owns this joint, eg; a family trust fund and or disgruntled relatives who missed out on the whole inheritance. The local council knows who owns these places and collect the rates, although it is in the middle of nowhere it is in a local council jurisdiction so rates are being paid, if not it would have been sold years ago. Thankyou Paul great show, being an old guy that travelled most eastern states of Australia (Vic, NSW, QLD, some SA) as a country representative from the 70’s to 2011 notice many places like this in my years.
Bruce.
@@brujonpatrick4779 I agree that it is a shame to see so many of these lovely places deteriorate, while some of them could be made good. Not so sure about this one though, as there a lot of wall problems in multiple places. I wonder if the relative(s) who now own the house have tried to sort some of it out to stop any further damage. I am convinced the roof has been sorted after the pigeon damage as there doesn't seem to be any birds living there now. The original owner may have moved out either through illness or age and nobody was in a position to sort it out while still alive. A lot of these old houses probably have similar sad stories and if Australia is anything like the UK, it takes solicitors forever and a day to sort out even with a will. If the person died intestate it can take years here (very lucrative business for the legal 'profession') to make sure who the beneficiaries are and they are in no hurry.
Another thing to consider is that this one would take a lot of money to make it habitable (if the walls can be made good) and someone who would dream of living there may not be able to afford to make it structurally safe. P.S. I stand corrected - have just watched again and missed the pigeon in the loft space the first time!
When you were in the living room I saw vhs tapes and a vcr but no TV, hmm. When your in the kitchen, that is a long walk to answer the front door. I didn't see a kitchen sink.
I reckon probably they didn't receive too many visitors living way out there.
Urbex Indingo thanks for sharing this video about Huge Edwardian Farmhouse full of stuff and sheds/They just gave up and now the pigeons own it i agree with you my friend i think the family slowly died away and the new genration gave up and left and that is always sad my friend and i am i am from the U.S.A and i will always enjoy your channel and show support and thanks and God Bless.
Cheers again Wayne for the support and for watching :-)
hey paul how are you going mate wow looking at this grand old farm house looks like it goes back a long way away and most likely would have been beautiful in its prime time and them pidgeons dont give much consideration were the poop all over the place and lots of it a lot of stuff left behind to hard to see most with all that pidgeon poop all over it looked like this old farmhouse was on a very large acridge of property paul very nice find paul thank you for sharing another great video paul cheers mate.
Would have loved to see this gorgeous home in her heyday!!
Love those windows.
Looks like whoever just up & left, or passed.
Can't help but wonder if they were remodeling or upgrading when they left with the random items in rooms, I remember a similar mess when I remodeled eons ago.
I wonder if another explorer was there recently, it's odd that a newspaper would be open to the date randomly..... It was also pretty clean.
What a stunning place that would have been.The pen looks like a chook pen.There was a hanging feeder .
Love love the art deco ceilings .reminding me of the good old days 👍.Shame so much junk would love to see the homesteads as they were 🥲.. Have you ever. Gone through the floorboards .?👍🇦🇺
Definitely a pressed tin roof upgrade, you could actually see the original old Galv roof from inside looking up. Probably done in the late 70 they always look great forever, and they are generally screwed straight to the old roof just like my old maisonette
I don't think it has been abandon as long as you think. There was a foxtel dish on the roof.
I saw that too! Good point about how long it’s been vacant.
@@dianalee4312great pick up, yes, had to lived in in the 90’s. Also the CD’s could be a good give away.
I noticed a cordless tool charger in the wardrobe. I may be wrong, but this is one fascinating joint. Very mysterious. 14.29.
The crock pot is a good clue here also.
Light switches, not that old.
Thank you Paul for an intriguing explore, where you stumbled across a beautiful old gem, wi†h the distinctive Federation and stone facade, graced internally with original Edwardian fireplace surrounds and decorative ceilings. Very little updates have been made to the home since the late 1970s and early 1980s, judging by the wallpapers and kitchen appliances. Hopefully this historic Edwardian homestead can be saved and restored back to glory.
Hi Julz :-) I also hope for that as it would be amazing to see such a large grand old home brought back! Thanks for watching again :-)
Would have been a lovely place back in the day. The beautiful ceiling panels defo removed, they are not spread all over the floor. Wish you had your gloves with you so you could pick up and turn over a few things, books, cassettes etc. Great explore.
Hi Anne :-) Yes there was just so much dust and muck. Glad you enjoyed :-)
Yeah. This place used to be an early detox and fitness centre (with all the gym bikes and nice shower after ! Saxa Salt to replace electrolytes too !) Had to close due to covid.🚿🚴♂
Lol :-) Betty Ford clinic Oz style :-)
The only reason you found a box dated 2018. Would be squatters.Its probably been at least 25 years since it was occupied. Too bad it became a dumping ground.
Yes flies are sooo annoying. And it does not matter how much you spray they just go from bad to worse. And some of them bite as well.
Ceiling is neat.
This was a nice house in its days.
This one is hard to pick. I know some farmers that have the old house but again due to the cracking of the walls they turn it into storage and build a new one. But this looks different. It has the dish on the roof so that says it's only probably since the late 1990's to 2000's that this has been abandoned but the bird poo and inside roof say different. It's a hard one to put a date on when it was last occupied.
My thoughts exactly mate. Cheers for watching :-)
Love seeing these 17 to 1800s homes, but it's really sad seeing stuff being covered by bird poo or just rooting away :(
Geez! The outside of that house was beautiful, but as for the inside ... you're a much braver soul than I am. I would have been BAD if it had been abandoned in a neat and tidy condition, but that squalor is begging for a bulldozer. You needed a hazmat suit for this one.
The poor fox. Sad that some of the windows, ceilings and fireplaces couldn't be saved.
Perfect explore
Hi ABC :-) Glad you enjoyed, cheers for watching
Thank you for sharing your discovery of this old beauty, Paul. ❤❤✌️
The enclosure that you thought might have been a pig had a low hanging feeder in the covered part, maybe for piglets? Although it looked more like a fowl feeder. Chickens? There was not even a remnant of roosting boxes for hens. Ducks, perhaps? 🤔
Yes I thought maybe piglets too . Cheers Freyja 😊👍😁
what a beautiful house
Cheers for watching Aussiejos :-)
So much bird poop! That house has been abandoned for decades! It amazes me how things that were once treasured by families like photos are now discarded and the memories forgotten. We have boxes of family photos, I have no clue who the people are.
Yes, that's a n old clothes dryer, we have one but, it was made into a cupboard with shelves.
What a bummer... 7:17 I reckon those are photos of the house during the reno attempt
Correct me if I am wrong at 44.44 there is the chicken feeder/water orange thing hanging . Thanks for the video.
Hello Paul. Thanks for another great video. I was waiting for you to put out another video. Now my Saturday is complete. I don't think anything, ( the furniture ), can be saved in this old house. Well, maybe some parts of the house. As always, be safe and be careful. See ya in the next explore.
Cheers for watching again vicki :-)
Half of my mind is screaming to get things out of there and not let it all rot, and the other half is screaming that people leave such a damn mess anywhere we go.= SDK
10:56 that's an interesting light fitting
I'm sure it was at one time a beautiful home. It looked like an older man lived there, maybe in hopes of fixing it up some day, but became a pack rat. Beautiful stained glass and fireplaces and a lot of bird poo on top of everything. I agree it takes decades to reach that level of poo.
That's a shame that its been let go like it has because it was a nice family home. Birdie poo central and yes its hard to work out what's nesting material or household contents. LOL There's junk in there from the 30s onwards. the roofing, here in NZ was known as Decromastic style pressed galv steel with fine gravel attached to it. late 50s,Early 60s onward. There was an old ribbed enamel sink bench outside and i'm guessing that may have been the original one along with a bath by the back door. Inside that last shed and pen, It was a chicken coop. there was a dirty orange bird feeder to your right as you walked in. low to the ground. Id agree with you last occupied late 2018 but im thinking prior to that 80s and then there wasn't any sets of furniture after the 70s in the lounge and a vcr but no tv.. The kitchen and most of the wall paper early 70s. Most of the rooms i couldnt tell if they had lino or carpet. LOL that place has been well picked over.
Someone could be slowly repairing this beauty when we aren’t looking. That’s good, what gem. QUESTION: has this joint got power???
I think someone was having a go at starting the ceiling replacement around 9-10 years ago. Hmmm it did have at one point for sure :-)
I've still got a crock pot, and I still use it .
It’s the Scottish grenadier guards pronounced Gren a deer.
I would say that its a deceased estate and the owner went to hospital and never came back. Relatives would find it very hard to sell way out in the middle of nowhere and to many repairs to have been done .
Would have been a lovely home at one point.
How horrific! The Mackintosh style stained windows and the fireplace surround are the only things that "look" valuable. Everything else is so messy it is impossible to tell.
This would have been someones pride and joy at one point. Shame to see it in this condition.
Some people, idk. Beautiful must have been gran in its day. Open to the elements rotting to the ground. Didn't break it or take it.🤔
The whole house looks like a deceased estate,another great explore, it would be interesting to know what happened to the owners of this property.?
There was a gun in the shed
Just the stock, not a complete one.
Yer I saw that too she would have been a lovely home in its day take a lite to clean up
The pigeons hid the rest!
Great commentary Paul. A beautifully built old home. I like it better when it's not filled with junk and all the modern rubbish. I suppose it gives you a timeline of its history though. I'd say that the most recent occupants were hoarders. Couldn't throw anything away. But if you look past all the stuff you can see a home of its time. Built during the reign of King Edward. Windows with amazing leadlight. High ceilings and unique ceilings. Set in wide open farmland. Thanks for bringing it to us.
Hi Ruby :-) A grand old home indeed. Would have been quite the sight in her prime! :-) Cheers for watching
Its a real shame those leadlight window are left to rot and there is a beautiful fireplace in the house to .if there going to rot what a shame someone cant buy them or use in a renovation of a old house .
Bit a spit and polish, DIY, and a lick of paint, she will be restored to her former grand old self.
Okay kind of a date because of the Vodka bottle. Jelzin Vodka is a French vodka named after Boris Yelzin, Russia's first president. The Vodka was developed in the mid 1990's and in the early 2000's exported to Australia. The company was bought by a wine company (GCF Spirits) in the late 2000's and the name of the Vodka, Jelzin was changed to Divine Vodka. So that bottle at best was made before 2010.
what were those things by the sheds that looked sort of like deep freezers? I'm sure that isn't what they were.
Would have been a beauty
Seems to be more like a deceased estate then anything else. What an absolute shame though
That was a very big home, and I thought that was strange I saw metal roof inside but what looked like tile outside. I think they were Decrabond Aluminium and they went over the old metal roof and were weak as piss to walk on and they would dint. That old drier thing looks like what we used at school to dry our developed 35 MM films. Speaking of foxes one or maybe 2 got in and killed the old guy next door's 8 chooks 3 were done in over in my back yard. They were intact and nothing eaten of them at all.
Gday Steviebboy :-) Yeah those tin tiles are on a lot of suburbian homes too, I dont think they look as good a corrugated tin roof with a bit of rust showing :-) Geez sounds like the foxes were hunting for fun? Cheers for watching mate
@@urbexindigo5164 Yes it just shows foxes are even in town and the odd Kangaroo. as for my roof its corry with quite a bit of rust.
The wallpaper was a common pattern, not that long ago.
How did you miss the rifle in the first shed after the house and that's not the original roofing over the house the corrugated metal what it looks like to me as someone tried to go in there and tried to renovate and realized it was just too much they put the corrugated roof over the house they put the new metal tiles on the roof on the shed because you noticed there's a lot of nails and roofing and all kinds of material and you went back into the house noticed the replace ceiling but you didn't notice the fluorescent light up in that replace ceiling and the corrugated roof over the house because you didn't noticed the wood up above does not match the rod and decay of the rest of the building
I get really concerned you don't wear suitable masks and gloves whilst in the old homes the pidgeons have taken over and been pooping for years! I know people get bad lung conditions down the track from inhaling the dust from old poo. Please consider wearing a suitable mask so you don't have any nasty illness later in life. Great explore of another grand old house , l have never seen an old clothes dryer like that before, very interesting to see.🦘🇦🇺🥺😊
Dude, you need to mask up and get the heck out of the bird poo palace! Save thyself!
I wonder if the roof has been torn down because all that bird poop was up there? Then they planned to slowly put a new one up. The beams looked in fairly good condition? Cant believe how much mess birds can make. Quite disgusting really.
Probably a very good reason why it was removed lifesa_highway :-) Cheers for watching
More likely collapsed from the weight and moisture from all the bird poop. It's only weeks till pigeons move in once humans move out, and then places are destroyed in only a couple of years.
Looks to me like squatter’s stayed there
A hoarder?
It's what I percieve.
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