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Shaw’s Log Cabin Whalebone Road, Blackwood. Built by Joseph Shaw, one of brothers who built Shaw’s Lake, Blackwood.
Log Cabin in Simmons Reef.
Showing end of Log Cabin Simmons Reef with mud packed in between logs.
Log Cabin restoration and extension in Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Kahl’s Log Cabin Whalebone Road, Blackwood, shows side wall and back of cabin.
Kahl’s Log Cabin Whalebone Road, Blackwood, shows front of cabin.
Log toilet in Simmons Reef, Blackwood
Inside log toilet with flattened kerosene tins for walls. Blackwood. (Toilet paper was cut and torn newspaper with a ruler and pierced together on a string hanging from a nail.)
Central Highland Heritage Restorations Log Cabin, Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Sign of Central Highland Heritage Restorations Log Cabin, Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Sign of Central Highland Heritage Restorations Log Cabin, Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
One of the log cabins which has been renovated with weatherboards in Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Side of log cabin in Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Harry Whalebone’s cabin, Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Log Cabin with extensions at the end of Richards Road, Whalebone Road, Blackwood.
Blackwood had many log cabins in the early gold mining days and some still remain to show how the people lived in these small dwellings.
My own uncle built a log cabin in the main street of Blackwood, using logs which he filled in the gaps in between with cement and mud. It was used as a holiday cabin and my uncle had built bunk beds down one end where my two cousins slept. Unfortunately it accidently burnt down in the 1980’s.
Cowell’s log cabin where it used to stand in Martin street, Blackwood, left my mother Dorothy Roberts, her husband Leo Roberts, my Uncle Fred Cowell, his wife Marjorie Cowell (my mother’s sister), Walter Warner, Frances (Dot) Warner – parents of Dorothy and Marjorie and my grandparents who had our holiday house ‘Wannawong’ built, on the corner of Warner street. c. 1935.
Baldwins log cabin in Simmons Reef. See some history of this cabin in my book “Some History of Simmons Reef, Blackwood.”
Baldwins log cabin Simmons Reef – up above garden of St. Erth with Margot Hitchcock..
Charlie Foulkes with Maggie Duncan outside his cabin, Blackwood.
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Log Cabin construction – To build a frontier style log cabin:
- lay a rock or stone foundation to keep logs above the damp soils
- square off each log.
- cut notches on the top and bottom of each end.
- stack the logs and fit the notched ends together at the corners.
- “chick” (or stuff) sticks and wood chips in the gaps between the logs.
- fill remaining spaces with mud.
- cut open a door and at least one window.
- build a stone fireplace.
- rake the dirt and gravel floor smooth.
- Or cement floor or lay a timber floor..
- courtesy of google search – Log Cabin Construction
