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Homestead at R Newton's property -Taroom

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Pastoralism has left a physical heritage from the initial squatting period of the 1840s to the present day. These homestead complexes are located across the State and vary from those now on the outskirts of expanding cities like Rockhampton, Toowoomba and the metropolitan sprawl of southeast Queensland to the remote (Thallon) and very remote (Birdsville). There are also many places with a richly layered history but the physical heritage values are no longer intact due to relocation, adandonment, fire, vandalism and ultimately decay.
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Colonial buildings include Cressbrook, Tarong, Gracemere, Nindooinbah, Burrandowan, Eidsvold, Booubyjan, Kilcoy, Canning Downs, Mount Abundance. Few survive after World War I when lightweight prefabrication and materials had an impact on rural homestead maintenance and new designs. Interestingly, the tradition of slab building continued because of the shortage of manpower and materials during World War I as illustrated by the sawn timber slab construction

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"Goomoomie" Homestead – Glenmorgan

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Climbing Plants In The Homestead Garden.

The growing of climbing plants is a subject to which, as a rule, a great deal of thought is not given by the home homesteader, and although we often see these plants about that are more or less taken as a matter of course and until seen gay with bloom are practically forgotten or unattended.
There are many beautiful flowers in this group of plants, and the uses to which they can be put are many and varied. There are, for instance, amonsts these plants those which will cling to walls, fences, and other subjects without the aid of wire and other supports, while others needs something through which to twine their growth to keep them up.
Some of the uses to which these plants can be put are the covering of unsightly out-buildings, or fences, or the sides of walls where

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