00:00This is one of the oldest shearing sheds in all of Australia. It was erected in 1830
00:07where they used to wash their clothes, dip it, wring it out and then they would have gone to
00:12hang it. And in here you can see that this is their actual old wash tub where they would have
00:18lit the fire and washed their clothes in the top here. Shearing in itself, the antique part of it,
00:25they believed that the convicts would have been on the other side of this wall pulling the belt
00:31so that the shearers could manually shear the sheep. Now in the 1950s I believe, they bought in the
00:39petrol motor at the top and it ran the machine. And today we use our modern day electric shearers.
00:4828 convicts that were listed to Lawson at the time when they were doing the building,
00:53but he was also in charge of setting up Bathurst. So there would have been convicts that were,
00:59there was an overlay of convicts and there's also documentation that he had over a hundred convicts
01:05in his, that were staying here at the time and they would have built the convicts barracks and the homestead.
01:14So in here you can see that there are signatures on the walls. Even, oh this ship is just so
01:23clear.
01:241917. And over here, just beside this one, 1886.
01:311886. And now I'm going to re-expire all the things.
01:32So let's see.
01:341921.
01:372121.
01:372121.
01:382222.
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