GLENCOE

A small settlement with a General Store / Bistro, a hall and a giant woolshed. BLADES OF GLENCOE SHEARATHON

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The Glencoe Woolshed DISTRIBUTORS AUSTRALIA PO Box 38, Balhannah, South Australia 5242 CODE 364 URGENT APPROVAL REQUIRED Please check: • Names & Addresses Phone 08 8388 4844 Mobile 0418 446 444 Fax 08 8180 1710 Email: tour@exploringaustralia.com.au In 1844, just eight years after the South Australia Colony was proclaimed, Robert and Edward Leake headed south for the Rivoli Bay area, moving their sheep from Kapunda after transporting them from Tasmania. Many sheep had perished In 1863 Edward built Glencoe Woolshed. It was architecturally designed (TS Gore) and he also built a state of the art shearers quarters (now Glencoe community hall) with partitions between each bunk, books to read and a long table on the sea voyage. The brothers lived as squatters in tents, • Telephone Numbers • Spelling. in the middle for dining. Shearers usually slept on woolshed PROOF SHEET while their flock increased from 600 to 7,000. They considered the north was too dry and so set off south for greener pastures. Please be so kind as to send by return mail for any alterations to your proof. floors, so this accommodation was very luxurious. Glencoe woolshed opened with a ball and 200 people

They arrived at a lake (later Lake We will assume proof is OK if not attended. The woolshed in busy times operated with around Glencoe Historic WoolshedLeake), with their farm overseer, John received by us within 7 days. 100 workers, with shearers competing to shear the most sheep McIntyre, and set up a camp of stringy It is important that this be done so a day. The maximum flock size the Leake’s maintained was bark huts and a woolshed. The local indigenous Boandik people as to avoid the chance of your space appearing incorrectly. 55,000 sheep. Edward died 4 years later and the estate were recruited to wash the sheep prior to PLEASE TICK BOX reverted to the Tasmanian family to manage HERE IS A REPRESENTATION OF YOUR ADVERT TO APPEAR IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN ROAD shearing and do stockwork. They were paid with meat, flour and sugar and they set up a large camp by the lake. Changes Required (please inform) until his daughter came of age. Glencoe woolshed was never modernised with a mechanised shearing DATE A year later, the Leake brothers made a land claim of 176 square miles, encompassing Lake Leake, Mount Burr, Mount Proof O.K. plant. Blade shearing still occurred in the early 20th century. As other smaller, local sheds were Gambier and Mount Schank areas. They moved to higher mechanised and the Leake family farm was broken up, little ground, 6 kms away. In 1851 Robert married Ruth Hickmer and SIGNED use was made of the woolshed and was used by local farmers built Frontier House. He was industrious and impacient with his as a storage facility. It deteriorated over time. brother. The partnership was disolved and Edward retired to It came to be in the possession of local farmer, Scotty Portland. Kennedy, who donated it to the SA National Trust in 1970.

Just five years later Robert died. Edward inherited the Initial government funds replaced the roof and windows and property and he and his wife Letitia moved into Frontier House. National Trust continues to care for this unique building.

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)

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