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Restoration Australia | Holowiliena

Written by Sibella Court

 

In 1852 a Scottish blacksmith, his wife, and six children, all walked 500km from Adelaide, South Australia, to start a new life. Their great-great-granddaughter seeks to restore her pioneering ancestor's original buildings.

Established in 1853 by the Warwick family, Holowiliena is the only remaining pastoral property in Australia still owned by the original family. It would take me a full day's travel to arrive a Holowiliena station - a flight to Adelaide, a small aircraft to Port Alfred then a 3-4 hour drive into the Flinders Ranges. This is a spectacular part of the world and still very much frontier country. It can be very, very dry but whilst I visited over 2 years Frances, Luke, Stella & Tod saw wild flowers! The first time they had shown their pretty faces in Frances' adult life.
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