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Abandoned Town: a Journey to Yerranderie, in Yerandry

 20 Apr 2019

Yerandry (Yerranderie), a small town with more than 4000 people mining silver more than a hundred years ago, is very lively. By the time the big reservoir was built in Sydney in 1955, his economic had fallen, and even the only way into it was underwater. By 1965, the last few families supplied by carrying horses had moved out, so the town was completely abandoned, and in English such towns would be called "Ghost Town".


After more than an hour of SYDNEY`s west highway, he began to enter the four-wheel drive in the mountain, so he stopped, reduced the tire pressure, and prepared to enter the mountain.

On the way, you have to go through nearly five hours of four-wheel drive before you can get there.

An unknown small farm in the mountain village, the rare old truck.

It was late when it arrived that night, and then it was filmed the second day, it was all cloudy. Very depressed.

This is the protagonist of the story, a town of more than 100 years old house, is still quite well preserved, in 1907, was the local post office.

Water is rain, electricity is a huge solar panel plus two groups of bank computer room battery pack. So I have been afraid to turn on the lights at night, afraid to dry the battery, cloudy and cannot charge.

This is the living room and fireplace downstairs, and the coffee table was once used by a group of lunatics to play with dish immortals.

On the left is our room, and there are 5, 6 large rooms vacant, outside is the balcony on the second floor. It was only afterwards that we learned that our room was the one with the most advice from the tenants. .

Introduce the town again, in the late 1970s, was bought by the private, as their own resort, but the owner`s age is already high, not suitable for bumpy back and forth, so please take care of it from time to time, clean and resupply, empty rooms can also be rented to people like ours on weekends, and of course, symbolically charge some fees.


And everyone needs to bring their own food, sheets, pillows, quilts, and take their garbage with them when leave. Only stoves, beds, kitchen gas stoves and, of course, hot water dryness are available.

I came here to feel the smell of decline and desolation. 5 or 6 years ago, I brought a four-wheel-drive team past. At that time, the map only showed a flat land that could camp, but when I arrived, I was surprised by the characteristics of the place, so I wrote it down and kept thinking about coming back to live all weekend.

Since few people knew that there was an empty town, and even most of the maps were not on the table, a lot of things were preserved.

But without the sun, there will be no light and shadow, and there will be no atmosphere.

The house survived the mouth of white ants more than 100 years ago, and nothing has changed.

Even the furnishings in the house have not changed.

The family was supposed to have a good standard of living at the time.

It is said that the two-room house sometimes has 10 children and seems to have no advantage over China at the time.

It looks a little cool.

Looking at the newspaper, I found the news that the Titanic was about to be built.

The simplest wine cellar, look at these bottles, the bottom of the bottle is deeply concave, because of the technology at that time, the bottle is not as resistant to pressure as it is now, so the bottles of the times are like this.

This is the mining area at that time, the town of leave is only 400m, can no longer be identified.

Even time has stopped here, which is another feeling I like.

I talked to the only local caretaker for a long time at tea. He was a typical country boy. I also promised him to go again next time, will bring milk brand and red wine, completely relax and have a good drink.

It turns out that which post office we live in is a lot of stories. First of all, last year came to a group of super events shooting team, the following content bold to look down, the rest of the students so far.

This is the room next door to us. It`s a little cold every time we pass by.

In the mirror at the door, it is said that someone has successfully photographed the face of the little girl. Haha, I didn`t.

*This article does not represent the views of us.

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