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Australia's colonists were forced to improvise again, and become their own craftsmen. [n. 3] In time, buildings of timber slabs became a familiar feature of rural Australia. [6] Some were public and long-lasting structures: shops, [7] schools [8] and churches; even substantial homesteads were built of slabs. [n. 4] Others were no more than hovels.
Murtoa Stick Shed, formally known as the Number 1 Emergency Grain Store, is a large grain store in Murtoa, a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. It is located adjacent to the railway line in western Victoria’s vast wheatbelt. 560 upright poles, some 80-foot-long, went into building the cathedral-like structure.
A containerized housing unit, usually abbreviated as CHU (and sometimes called containerized living unit or CLU) is an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters. [1] Such containers can be transported by container ships , railroad cars , planes , and trucks that are capable of transporting intermodal freight transport cargo.
Australia's passion for sheds is documented in Mark Thomson's Blokes and Sheds (1998). [15] Jim Hopkins' similarly titled Blokes & Sheds (1998), with photographer Julie Riley Hopkins, profiles amateur inventors from across New Zealand. [16] Hopkins and Riley followed up that book with Inventions from the Shed (1999) [17] and a 5-part film ...
The Men's Shed in Jedburgh An old railway goods shed in Australia, now the Grenfell Men's Shed. Men's sheds or community sheds are non-profit local organisations that provide a space for craftwork and social interaction. The movement originated in Australia around the 1980s as a way to improve the health and wellbeing of older men.
Old Errowanbang Woolshed is a heritage-listed shearing shed at Errowan Park, Old Errowanbang Lane, Errowanbang, Blayney Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Watt and built in 1886. It is also known as Errowanbang Woolshed. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 23 June 2006. [1]
Windy Station also has sheep fattening in the paddocks and each year a small number, around 20,000 sheep may be shorn at the windy woolshed. Other uses for the shed include the occasional wedding reflecting the shed's 20th century role as a bit of a social hub for the local community who attended parties and all night dances at the woolshed. [1 ...
The Australian Men's Shed Association (AMSA) is a non-profit organisation that was set up in April 2007 to aid men's sheds across Australia.The purpose of the Association was to offer a central source for all Men's Sheds in the country, due to the number of duplicate men's sheds appearing.