Sweet peas, gum branches and pear blossoms adorn the rafters of an old grain shed, transforming it into a dance hall for one momentous night as singles hope to meet their match.
The Bachelor and Spinster Bushwackers' Ball in Yarranlea, a rural village in Queensland, was brimming with the possibility of love as country couples danced their cares away two years after the end of WWII.
"The festivities were kept moving until the 'wee sma' hours'," local newspaper the Pittsworth Sentinel chirpily reported of that spring evening in 1947.
