The drovers wife

A photo essay inspired by Australia’s greatest bush poet.
There is poetry, tragedy and beauty in abandoned farmhouses.
Greg Branson 2020

“The two-roomed house is built of round timbers, slabs, and stringy bark, and floored with split slabs. A big bark kitchen at one end is larger than the house itself, verandah included.
Bush all round-bush with no horizon. No ranges in the distance.”

The Drovers Wife Henry Lawson 1892

A look at the abandoned places that made Australia.
Abandoned farmhouses and buildings have become an iconic part of the Australian landscape. A three room cottage in Yarck Victoria ...
and the ghostly remains of a jetty on Flinders Island, Bass Strait ...
to an abandoned Masonic lodge in Cue, Western Australia ...
to dawn at the picturesque but derelict and unsafe jetty at Rest Point, Walpole, Western Australia ...
and the remnants of a water pump near Mildura Victoria ...
horse power built rural Australia, remnants of the squattocracy, Deniliquin NSW ...
river transportation helped develop towns along the Murray. Heavy machinery, now abandoned, was used to drag boats into dry dock, Echuca Victoria ...
rural dynasty’s began in 3 room cottages with the bare essentials, Central Victoria ...