Silo Art Trail WARRACKNABEAL

Our next stop for the night was Warracknabeal on the Henty Highway. 

Warracknabeal is a wheatbelt town situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek,and features a number of historic buildings including the Tudor-style post office (built in 1907) and the old State Savings Bank building (1909) which now houses the Warracknabeal Historical Centre which has displays open to the public. 

There were other old closed banks as well. The junction of Scott Street and Woolcock Street is known as Federation Place and full-size sculptures of sheep and a kelpie dog are located within the roundabout as a tribute to the town's early settlement days. 

A fascinating old building still operating was the Ladies' Rest Rooms that celebrated their 90th birthday in 2018,

The idea for the restrooms came about when farming women would accompany their husbands into Warracknabeal on a Friday to shop.The men would go and drink at the hotels and women couldn’t go in them in those days, So they all got together to see whether they could have their own dedicated rooms.  the rooms

The inside is decorated as it may have been back then including and tea and coffee service
It has a strict no men policy Boys up to 6 yrs permitted and No Smoking
The toilets were out back in a garden courtyard

One of the closed Pubs

Another told bank building 

The lovely creek beside the one pub open 

beside the creek is a park with an Animal Reserve Wallaby, emu birds etc 

I had booked a motel, but as we were driving up the main street I couldn't remember where it was
I looked it up and posted the address 197 Henty Hwy into the map.
Well that took us to the Huge Service Station and as we pulled up we stopped in front of some very basic rooms along the wall

the photo is taken from the petrol bowser!! 

Shades of our experience in Birmingham Alabama and the De Soto Rooms.I assured Jo I wouldn't have booked this!! but did have a moment of panic,
So I looked it up again and the address is obviously a general indication, but the name showed up on other side of road and around the corner  Whew!!

Our final destination!!

 The very helpful woman in the Rupanyup General store had told us that the Brim Silos were lit at night so we decided to go out and see them,
 A 15 minute drive out of town after a delicious meal at the Pub that was open !

Guido Van Helton's Brim Silos 

In the morning we had breakfast at a local cafe then spent a while wandering around the biggest  2nd hand collectibles shop I had seen in a while Wheatlands' Warehouse.

You name it they had it in spades!!

We then headed off to the  Brim Silo in the daytime