TAKE A WALK AROUND any farm across the country and you’ll likely spot an old tin shack or shed slowly crumbling in a paddock. Once sturdy, honest structures built for a hard day’s work, many are now simply a romantic postcard from Australia’s past.
Such was the fate of the 108-year-old shearers’ quarters on the Willsallen family’s farm, Widgeongully, in Jugiong, NSW, 90 minutes north-west of Canberra. The huge corrugated-iron shed and two small huts (lodgings for the overseer and cook) had been left to the elements until Yvette Smart and her partner, Ollie Willsallen, decided to
