After losing their home to fire, this family is restoring an old homestead trucked in from 100 kilometres away

Driving home during 2018 to their property in Tanamera, north-west of Longreach, they found their 60-year-old homestead burnt to the ground.

The outback Queensland family had lost everything except what they had on them when they left the house that day, and had to completely rebuild from the ground up.But it was not a typical rebuild. Rather than build a new home, or buy a kit home, Sally and her husband Wally decided to move a homestead more than a century old from another property north of Winton, more than 100 kilometres away.

After beginning their search in 2019, and living in dongas in the meantime, it was not until April 2020 that the main structure of the house, minus the verandahs and the roof, was loaded onto a truck and moved to Tanamera."They just pick this thing up, put it on a truck, and here it is."Bringing the 'old lady' back to life

During the process of moving and restoring the home, Sally found the original plans of the home, which was built in the late 1800s. She discovered the house's first location was at Charters Towers before it was moved to Aldingham Station, north of Winton.

so that one will be destroyed in the next... maybe they should construct a home fit for regional purpose

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