Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Railway House


There are lots of little old abandoned houses on the West Coast, probably leftover from the goldmining days of when miners or farmers lived in them. This one is in Stillwater, about 25 minutes from town right next to the railway depot.

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14 comments:

gz said...

A nice wee house..a two room house in Scotland is a Butt and Ben...just waiting for someone to care for it!

Bill said...

Love to hear the stories behind this house, it still looks sturdy.

Lydia C. Lee said...

That's sort of sad. It's very like the Australian ones too. #RubyTuesdayToo

Veronica Lee said...

There is something sad yet fascinating about old abandoned houses.

Happy Tuesday, Amy!

csuhpat1 said...

Such a beautiful house with tons of memories.

NCSue said...

It would be fun to poke around in abandoned places like this to see if treasures have been left behind and to try to interpret the past lived there.
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Tigger's Mum said...

So common in the rural SI of my youth - cottages, colonial cob houses, huts and bothies that were slowly rusting or crumbling away, or had been turned into sheds.

Fun60 said...

A little bit of work and maybe it could become a useful building again.

Tom said...

...I love it. Aged to perfection.

magiceye said...

Beautifully composed and shot!

Barwitzki said...

... wonderful for spinning stories.
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Iris Flavia said...

Oh! Did you go in? I just got a book on abandoned places in Braunschweig!

Mitzi said...

Old and abandoned yet still welcoming.

William Kendall said...

It has character.

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