20220726 Qld Cecil Plains

20220726 We drove straight through to Cecil Plans and camped on the hill overlooking the weir at the Cecil Planes Homestead, it wasn’t what I expected but it was quiet and peaceful and if it wasn’t for the wind, it would be lovely. The town is surrounded by rich, black soils and was originally used for raising cattle and sheep, but since the 1960s, the area turned its attentions to cotton and is now one of the richest cotton-producing areas in the southern hemisphere.

Our camp for the next couple of days overlooking the Condamine River

It was in 1841 a Henry Stuart Russell laid claim to a property he called Cecil Plain Station after his family name. The 200,000-acre station stretched from a tree marking the boundary of Yandilla station on the Condamine to Oakey Creek and back to Jondaryan. It was resumed by the government in 1916, until it was divided into soldier settlement blocks in 1919.

This old water tower overlooks the Homestead.
This well made shed has certainly stood the test of time, she a solid one.

I'm think it was once used as huts for the workers on the station.

The destruction of the floods reach Cecil Plans as they are cut off from the rest of the state.

The trees are backed up with rubble and the water is still very murky after the recent floods.

The Homestead sits on the Condamine River.

20220727 We brave a walk to Hotel Victory for lunch and I gotta tell ya, it was bloody freezing and it was further away than we thought, good on ya Des. The 1932 Hotel didn't obtain its liquor licence until 1938.

The Vintage Club visit the Homestead

The guest is greeted to morning tea in the shed full of memorabilia before they walk the grounds checking out the old wares.

Vintage Germany Straight Razor Shaving, discovered on a high shelf on the veranda of the Homestead.

It wasn't so much the old hut that got my attention but the Phone Number, that would go back many years.

Flash, is the language of the thieves, or the low Londoners… In the colony, too, using 'flash' words was a way for convicts to resist authority and conceal their intentions from those in charge – such as their assigned masters or the overseers of work gangs.

Cotton Farms in Cecil Planes

THOSE OLD COTTON FIELDS
Location: Cecil Plains QLD 4407, Australia

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