Beaudesert residents devastated as 100-year saleyard history comes to an end

Winifred Gurd and Stan Cahill have spent nearly every second Monday morning at the Beaudesert pig and calf saleyard on Queensland’s Scenic Rim for more than 40 years.

But the fortnightly sale will no longer be written in the diary, as today saw the end of the century-old event.

Hundreds gathered at the saleyard in the centre of town for the final event, which has served as more than a sale but a place for social connection in the rural community since the early 1900s.

“I’ve hardly missed a Monday … I’m very sad to see them go,” Mr Cahill said.

“There will be nowhere to come meet your friends or anything now.”

Ms Gurd said it was “terrible…