A weathered corrugated iron building with empty window openings and an open doorway stands in tall grass at Jembaicumbene, New South Wales.

Long Iron Building

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Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/500 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A single-storey corrugated iron building runs across a field of tall grass under a heavy grey sky. A dark open doorway and a row of empty window openings line the near wall. A gabled end with a chimney is visible toward the far end. The iron cladding is weathered and the surrounding grass is uncut.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Long Iron Building
Series: Mill Pond Farm
Process: Giclée
Captured: 21 January 2022
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/500 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Location: Jembaicumbene, NSW, Australia
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Jembaicumbene, NSW, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The long iron building occupies a stretch of open pasture at Mill Pond Farm, Jembaicumbene, New South Wales. Its corrugated cladding has weathered to a dull grey-brown, and the near wall carries a row of empty window openings and a single open doorway. A gabled end with a chimney rises toward the far end of the structure. The surrounding grass grows tall and uncut, and a heavy grey sky sits low over the whole scene. Mill Pond Farm sits at 664 Majors Creek Road, approximately 10 kilometres south-west of Braidwood on the Southern Tablelands. The land was first established in the 1830s as part of the pastoral estate of William Henry Roberts and his brother-in-law Andrew Badgery, who held interests across the Jembaicumbene district. Outbuildings including a timber wagon barn and stables were constructed on the property in the 1840s, and wheat cropping began around the same period. The gold discovery on Jembaicumbene Creek in 1851, and its proclamation as a goldfield in 1853, transformed the district. By 1859, more than 1,000 miners were working the creek, among them approximately 600 Chinese miners. It was in this context that Charles Dransfield built the four-storey Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills on the property in 1859, using locally manufactured brick and farm-sourced granite, with massive hardwood beams cut from the nearby Budawang Ranges. The mill opened in January 1860. Its steam engine and engineering equipment were supplied by P.N. Russell and Co. of Sydney, and the building was designed by Sydney surveyor C.E. Langley. Milling operations ceased in 1885. The steam engine and fittings were dismantled and sold at some point after closure. The property continued as a pastoral holding, producing fine merino wool in the late nineteenth century. A restoration of the mill and homestead began around 2008 and continued for approximately 11 years. This photograph, made in 2022, records the long iron building as it stands in the paddock: cladding intact, openings empty, chimney still rising at the gabled end.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The long iron building stands in open pasture at Jembaicumbene, New South Wales, its empty window openings and open doorway facing a field of uncut grass under a grey sky. Mill Pond Farm has carried several lives since the 1830s: first as the Roberts and Badgery pastoral estate, then as the site of the Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills built by Charles Dransfield in 1859, and later as a restored gallery and private residence. The outbuildings that survive across the property include structures dating to the 1840s.

Brett Patman

The series

Mill Pond Farm

2022 · 53 photographs

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.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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