Last updated 5Jul19

Edward Brayshaws Hut site/Sam Abouds Dunny and Hut site

Sam Abouds Dunny and Edward Brayshaws Hut site are located beside the Long Flat Fire Trail near where it crosses Long Flat Creek (not named on map) in the Namadgi National Park.

Location: GR 55H FA 83649-25829 (MGA94), Bredbo 8726-3S 1:25000

Ever wondered what Sam would look like sitting on his dunny?

Here he is! photo 8 Oct 15 courtesy Keith Johnson www.kjohnsonnz.blogspot.com

Sam Abouds dunny, July 2013

Sam Abouds Hut site, July 2009


Edward Brayshaws Hut site, August 2015

Visits: 13 Oct 18, 14 Oct 17, 18 Aug 15, 15 Aug 15, 30 Jul 13, 21 Aug 12, 25 Jul 09, 8 May 07, 14 Sep 05

Photographs are available.

Documentation:

• KHA web site: Located in southern Namadgi at GR 835256 on the Bredbo map, this site is famous for its outside toilet, that remains in situ. The original lease was held by Jack Maquire and known as Long Flat. Sam bought the holdings in the 1960s and built a home similar in size and shape to a double garage. Other stones on the site are from the chimney of the home of Edward and Mary Brayshaw. She was originally a Chalker and one of her sons, Ted was born here in 1899. A survey of the block of this date does not show the house, so it must have post dated that.

• KHA Namadgi database (private source). Site 316. There are a number of old chimney stones at this site and these are understood (from oral sources) to be the remains of the chimney from the home of Edward and Mary Brayshaw.  This site would be known better as Sam Aboud’s, which contains the open-air toi ….

• Jenny H was kind enough to offer – Seeing Sam Aboud’s dunny recalled a picture in Daphne Curtis’s book about Namadgi. This is what she says: “when the Maguires sold Long Flat to Sam Aboud about 1970, we missed them coming to Mt Clear. Sam put a hut on the property and an open air septic toilet with no floor or walls: just the septic bowl on the rock”. She has the picture of the toilet in her book.The original lease was held by Jack Maquire and known as Long Flat. Sam bought the holdings in the 1960s and built a home similar in size and shape to a double garage. Other stones on the site are from the chimney of the home of Edward and Mary Brayshaw. She was originally a Chalker and one of her sons, Ted was born here in 1899. A survey of the block of this date does not show the house, so it must have post dated that.

• Personal research: I had incorrectly believed that Sam built this flushing loo to entice his wife to come out to his block. In Oct 13 Keith J, ex-ANU, contacted me off this blog after seeing a photo of Sam’s dunny. Through Keith, I was able to ring Sam and have a chat. He held this block and another across the border in NSW in the early 1970s and built the outside dunny with no walls because he liked a loo with a view. (JE 31Oct 13). See here.

• Gudgenby: A register of archaeological sites in the proposed Gudgenby National Park, J H Winston-Gregson MA thesis, ANU, 1978. Site BR1. Six kilometres from Mt Clear homestead. Granodiorite hearth, collapsed chimney; galvanised guttering, postholes, indented soil platform. See extracts of the relevant pages in the photos above.