Shearers Quarters Size:XL needles resting mid-scale

needles resting mid-scale

Locker units line the walls beneath four steel-framed windows

Cast iron columns rise from the cracked concrete floor of Malthouse One Lower

4052 Double Deck Seats at Eveleigh

run the length of a woolshed exterior set on a granite boulder foundation

Shearers Quarters Size:XL needles resting mid-scaleSunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales, catching dust in the still air above peeling paint and splintered timber. Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond. The building is returning to the land by degrees. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.