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Clinch's Mill ©
Greenough
Western Australia
#1834.

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Panasonic DMC FZ20 camera.

From my Archives. Photographed 2005.
One of the most interesting historic locations in Western Australia.
Just south of Geraldton along the Brand Highway, scattered on both sides of the highway, historic buildings rich with colonial history.
The community have worked tirelessly to care for our history over many years. Their dedication and work can only be described in the structures restoration work and the volunteers who promote the area with care and love. Thank you all for preserving our heritage and history. Worth a visit. Credit: GS Buck

Clinchs Mill ia a three storey building built of limestone with brick quoining and with an iron roof. It has a single storey boiler house attached. It was the first flour mill in the district built by Walter Padbury and extended by Thomas Church in the 1880s. It is still one of the most imposing structures in the front flats.
Greenough /ˈɡrɛnəf/ is a historical settlement situated in a floodplain (the 'Greenough Flats') 400 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia and 24 kilometres south of Geraldton on the Brand Highway. The settlement's historical buildings are mostly built of local limestone and date to the second half of the 19th century. A sizeable collection of these are owned and managed by the National Trust of Australia. A remarkable feature of the Greenough Flats is its windswept trees, some of which are bent a full 90 degrees due to the prevailing coastal winds.
The mouth of the Greenough River is about 10 km to the north of the town.
The area was first explored by George Edward Grey in 1839 after which he named the area after Sir George Bellas Greenough, the president of the Royal Geographical Society in London. Grey claimed that the area could become the granary of Western Australia.
In 1851 Augustus Gregory surveyed 30,000 acres (120 km²) of land in the region which became known as the Greenough Flats. That was subdivided into 20- and 30-acre (120,000 m2) lots with the view to encouraging English settlers who would be more used to the relatively small (by Australian standards) farm sizes. Within a few years, it had developed into a highly successful wheat growing area with a population of over 1,000. Several community centres were created, notably North Greenough, Central Greenough (initially focused on Company Road between Gray's Store and the Hampton Arms Hotel), South Greenough and Bookara.

Old Valley Homestead ©
Chittering Valley
Western Australia.
#1832.

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Fuji Fine Pix 2800 compact zoom camera.

From my archives, photographed 2001.

Discovered this old corrugated Iron, timber and brick planted former homestead, with large timber shed at the rear, in a beautiful valley, among the fruit growing area of Chittering Valley, 70km north of Perth.
Tucked into the valley basement looking splendid among the green pastures.
The old place looked deserted at the time I photographed and very doubtful anyone did live there.
This photo is one I photographed a few years ago on a trip through to Toodyay. The trip from Bullsbrook in the west through Chittering and onto Julimar and Toodyay is an beautiful drive through green valley pastures with cattle grazing peacefully.
Chittering is a town and rural district approximately 70 km NNE of Perth, Western Australia. It is located along the Brockman River within the Shire of Chittering. It lies between the towns of Gingin and Toodyay, in the Wheatbelt region.
The area was first explored by George Fletcher Moore in 1836 and has been known by that name since Moore recorded it on his maps. The name is Aboriginal in origin and is thought to mean place of the willie wagtails. Credit: Wikipedia.