One of the weird things about rural South Australia is that one in three paddocks seems to have a ruined stone cottage in it.
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@liamvhogan what
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@liamvhogan Can you MOVE a heritage listed house? Like, brick by brick, if you put it back in precisely the same way you found it?
Why no, I didn't get much sleep last night, why do you ask?
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@liamvhogan when you drive up to the Bridville track there are so many 19th C ruins of insane agricultural projects because there was like a 10yr period where it rained heaps so "explorers" thought it was this wildly fertile land.
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@vampiress this is extraordinarily controversial in the field
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@liamvhogan Amazing. I mean, I am unshocked, but... amazing.
I'm just imagining some rich fuckwits who want to develop over their heritage listed thing moving it brick by brick into some town where the property was cheap, then building some ghastly McMansion in its place, before putting the heritage listed property in the outskirts of Mulumbimby on sale for far too much as a tax writeoff.
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@liamvhogan yeah I wonder if this is because of materials - in NSW you see those left-behind chimneys because the rest of the farmhouse was timber
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@vampiress it works the other way as well. Heaps of Queenslanders in Brisbane get bought, literally sawn in half or quarters, and trucked to another property and reassembled.
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@vampiress @liamvhogan one such thing (before it was heritage listed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Anglican_Church,_Canberra
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@liamvhogan That's kinda funny. I do like a good Queenslander though.
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@vampiress see also the Willow Grove saga in Parramatta. Huge bad faith on all sides.
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@fsvo absolutely it’s materials. NSW construction was timber because there were (emphasis on ‘were’) forests but SA had nothing like it. Hence stobie poles also.
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@liamvhogan @vampiress also, the "shingle inn" in Brisbane: developer got permission to disassemble, build "rich fuckwits" shops, on the pinky-swear that the place would be reassembled in situ. It's rotting in some warehouse last I heard. Brisbane City Council pretended to be all :shocked pikachu: about what everyone knew would happen. lol.