Nestling in a hundred acres of good farm land 75 km south of Adelaide, Brook side is an old stone house built in the 1850s, now restored after long neglect. The task yielded surprises for its present owners, Jenny and Patrick, such as a slate floor under old layers. Margot Balmain. The story of Brook side starts off in 1848, when the young colony of South Australia was only twelve years old. That’s when James and Agnes Smith from Scotland, coming out to settle in Australia, Left the emigrant ship at Port Adelaide because of Agnes’s ill health and pregnancy. These young Scots were certainly the stuff that pioneers were made from: undaunted by the distance, they walked all the way. (more…)