Fireplace at Mill Pond Farm, a brick fireplace stands at the centre of the room, its chimney column rising.

Series · 3 prints

Mill Pond Farm

Photographed 2022
Frames 3
Camera NIKON D850
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Restored; gallery and private residence
Specs Four-storey flour mill · Granite and brick construction · Spring-fed millpond
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Mill Pond Farm sits in Jembaicumbene, near Braidwood, on land first worked as the region's earliest dairy in the 1830s. In 1859 a Yorkshire-born goldminer named Charles Dransfield built a four-storey Steam Flour Mill on the property, designed by Sydney architect Charles Langley. A 24-horsepower steam engine ground wheat, sawed timber, and crushed quartz to extract gold. The mill ran until 1885, when the railway arriving in Tarago undercut local flour prices, the financial depression hit, and repeated wheat rust outbreaks finished the run. The mill, stables, and dairy buildings sat unworked for nearly a century. Restoration is in progress.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Top of the Mill at Mill Pond Farm, a timber ladder leans against the gable wall, its rungs cracked and splintered.
Top of the Mill
Fireplace at Mill Pond Farm, a brick fireplace stands at the centre of the room, its chimney column rising.
Fireplace
End of the Mill at Mill Pond Farm, a two-storey brick and bluestone building stands alone in open grassland.
End of the Mill
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Paper

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Sizes

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