Glencoe
BLADES OF GLENCOE SHEARATHON
A small settlement with a General Store / Bistro, a hall and a giant woolshed.
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The Glencoe Woolshed
PO Box 38, Balhannah, South Australia 5242
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CODE 364
Phone 08 8388 4844 URGENT APPROVAL In 1863 Edward built Glencoe Woolshed. It was In 1844, just eight years after the South Australia Colony was Mobile 0418 446 444 REQUIRED architecturally designed (TS Gore) and he also built a state of proclaimed, Robert and Edward Leake headed south for Fax 08 8180 1710 the art shearers quarters (now Glencoe community hall) with the Rivoli Bay area, moving their sheep from Kapunda after Email: tour@exploringaustralia.com.au partitions between each books to read& and a long table transporting them from Tasmania. Many sheep had perished Pleasebunk, check: • Names Addresses in the middle for dining. ShearersNumbers usually slept on woolshed on the sea voyage. The brothers lived as squatters in tents, • Telephone • Spelling. Please be so kind as luxurious. to send by return floors, so this accommodation was very while their flock increased from 600 to 7,000. They considered mail for any alterations to your Glencoe woolshed opened with a ball and 200 proof. people the north was too dry and so set off south for greener pastures. We will assume proof is OK not around attended. The woolshed in busy times operatedifwith They arrived at a lake (later Lake receivedcompeting by us within days.the most sheep 100 workers, with shearers to 7shear Leake), with theirGlencoe farm overseer, John Woolshed Historic It is important that this be done so was a day. The maximum flock size the Leake’s maintained McIntyre, and set up a camp of stringy as to avoid the chance of your space 55,000 sheep. bark huts and a woolshed. appearing incorrectly. Edward died 4 years later and the estate The local indigenous Boandik people PLEASE BOX reverted to TICK the Tasmanian family to manage were recruited to wash the sheep prior to until his daughter came of age. shearing and do stockwork. They were paid with Changes Required HERE IS A REPRESENTATION OF YOUR ADVERT TO APPEAR Glencoe woolshed was never meat, flour and sugar and they set up a large camp by (please inform) modernised with a mechanised shearing the lake.IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN ROAD O.K.still occurred in the early plant. BladeProof shearing A year later, the Leake brothers made a land claim of 176 DATE 20th century. As other smaller, local sheds were square miles, encompassing Lake Leake, Mount Burr, Mount mechanised and the Leake family farm was broken up, little Gambier and Mount Schank areas. They moved to higher SIGNED use was made of the woolshed and was used by local farmers ground, 6 kms away. In 1851 Robert married Ruth Hickmer and as a storage facility. It deteriorated over time. built Frontier House. He was industrious and impacient with his It came to be in the possession of local farmer, Scotty brother. The partnership was disolved and Edward retired to Kennedy, who donated it to the SA National Trust in 1970. Portland. Initial government funds replaced the roof and windows and Just five years later Robert died. Edward inherited the National Trust continues to care for this unique building. property and he and his wife Letitia moved into Frontier House.
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Glencoe Historic WoolsHed
The woolshed is a fascinating look into the past when thousands of sheep were shorn by a huge shearing team. This unique and significant building with its huge catherdral beams is in original condition as a blade shearing shed in the small township of Glencoe. Enjoy a self-tour by collecting the access key from the Glencoe Post Office and Bistro. a GLENCOE (turn off the Southern Ports Highway, between Millicent and Mount Gambier) Click to watch: Blades of Glencoe on Youtube More to Explore www.exploringaustralia.com.au
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