GS Buck Photography

Historic Ruin ©
Marradong
Western Australia.
#1810.

Copyright GS Buck Photography ©
Canon Eos 40D camera with Sigma 24-60mm lens.

Photographed 2022.

Private Property. Entry not permitted.

140 km south of Perth along the Pinjarra - Williams road the farming paddocks are filled with spring crops of golden canola.
Photographed my old favourite historic ruin among the mist and heavy rain cloud that engulfs the area after rains over the past week.
Low green pastures fill the paddocks contrasted by overcast skies above.
The old ruin looking tired and un loved with a near by old iron garage come shed still standing proud among the low cropped pastures.

Marradong is a rural location between Dwellingup 44km to the west, Boddington 8km to the east and Williams 60km to the southeast.
Dwellingup well known for its timber industry and Boddington for its mining. Williams to the southeast is on the main highway heading south to Albany is a town for rural services ub the region.
Scenic drive throughout this region during the spring months easily accessible from the city of Perth within a days travel. Credit: GS Buck

Marradong was the major centre in the region until the 1920s, having been settled by the Batt, Pollard and Fawcett families, and once boasted a shop, post office, hotel, church, telegraph station and a one-roomed school. The town was also the home of the Marradong Road Board, first convened in 1903. After the arrival of the railway in Boddington, most facilities moved there and by 1930 Marradong had been largely abandoned.
All that remains of the town is the tiny St Albans Anglican Church and cemetery (1894), a few old homes in varying states of repair and some palm trees which once stood outside the Laura Hotel. The agricultural hall was demolished in 1989 and a small fire station has been built on the site. The locality is now mostly inhabited by local farmers who primarily produce wool, lamb, beef, oats, hay, barley, lupins, canola and timber. Credit: Wikipedia.