Annex Toilet windmill A timber staircase inside one

A timber staircase inside one of the tourism-era structures at Waratah Park

stands on timber posts against the open hills of rural New South Wales

weeds forcing through cracks in the concrete

Part of the Family School Fureai series

it records the architectural bones of a pastoral operation that has long since gone quiet

Annex Toilet windmill A timber staircase inside oneA derelict toilet sits in one of the ancillary spaces of the Portland Cement Works Precinct, rust tracking down the bowl from the cistern above. Built to serve a workforce that once numbered more than 600, the site operated as the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's primary plant from 1902 until cement production ceased in November 1991. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.