Restoration Australia: Oct 20
The final ABC episode is set at Holowiliena in the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
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Tomorrow night is the final episode for Restoration Australia, set at Holowiliena in the Northern Flinders Ranges, SA.
I haven’t caught all of these episodes but the parts that I have seen were put together well, with Sibella Court as host. This one is also an ABC internal production.
Holowiliena was settled in 1853 by the Warwick family and their descendants still live on the property. With no money or heritage skills, the Warwicks want to save the original settler’s buildings.
Established in 1853 by the Warwicks, Holowiliena is the only remaining pastoral property in Australia held by the original family. Many of the original settlers’ buildings are also still standing, but they are in desperate need of restoration.
These days Frances and her husband Luke assist her father, Richard Warwick in the running of the property. But with two families to feed, and a property on the edge of marginal land, they are looking for ways to make ends meet. Restoring the buildings built by their forebears could hold the key to protecting their unique history and also to securing the family’s long term future.
But without the finances or skills, Frances needs help and she finds it in a unique ‘Construction Industry Training Scheme’, run by English stone mason Keith McAllister.
8:30pm Tuesday on ABC.
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Haven’t seen it yet, because of the haphazard way in which Aus handles its tv programming we get the whole season of any series first, we’ll have to take tomothyd’s comment on board, we too are huge fans of all the “Restoration series'” from the UK, hoping it’s up the same level
Thanks for the final episode update. I have been watching the series, and it doesn’t impress me as much as the UK series ‘Restoration Home’. Like you mentioned in the review of it, the host\voice over can often be to serious. Disappointingly many of the houses are unfinished by the time of the final visits, so I feel let down after an hour of my time. Also because so little is done on the houses, there is not much building\progress footage, so the episode is often padded out with ‘build cam’ type footage from the owners, interviews with locals, and anti-climactic drama of potential collapsing walls or missed deadlines. I wish they had filmed for another 12 months and aired it next year. Looks like all the final visits were done around March this year.