This is great, memories! I can remember motoring up the Blackwood in the South West of WA in my canoe with the wife. I saw what appeared to be a dilapidated house roof so pulled over to the bank, scrambled up the bank and found an old farmhouse, long since abandoned. No doors or windows left, but there was an outhouse, water tank and a work shed with a few tools left behind. The only thing of interest was a large collection of jars filled with a iiquid and a collection of snakes, must have been a couple of dozen. A few years later I was in the same area, motored up the river in our canoe and stopped for a look. Sadly the house had been razed and nothing was left. I came across a few old abandoned farmhouses like this in our travels, some were nothing but wrecks, but a very few were still intact with cutlery and crockery, old jars of spread, cleaning agents, newspapers, chairs, tables, wardrobes and so on, one had an old Meters wood stove, green with white sliding doors on the front, same as the one my mother used to cook on, behind those doors was a neatly set fire, never ignited. The stories behind these old houses and why they were abandoned I don't know, but certainly fascinating.

Greg9 wrote:

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If you like old houses, have a look at the house my grandfather lived in, now abandoned within the confines of the old mine in Irvinebank.

Interesting view of the way some people lived at the time, and never mentioned while my parents were alive.

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 Always interesting to see what life was about in those days. People made do with what they had and got on with their lives. What I fondly call men and women of character.