Shearers Quarters outdoors picking out concrete walls streaked

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

The timber footbridge at Bombala Railway Station extends 30 metres from the station building into open yard

when corporate rationalisation shifted production elsewhere

Cracked asphalt and faded bay markings mark what was once the entry point to a purpose-built community venue on the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street

Clerestory windows at the far end throw light across the mess

Shearers Quarters outdoors picking out concrete walls streakedSunlight 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.