Valley Shearers Quarters afternoon and the staircase has sat

and the staircase has sat undisturbed since

Grader at Bathurst

Blower at Yarraville

and scattered papers remain in the administration office of Peters Creameries Pty Ltd's Chatham factory

Industrial washing machines and dryers stand rusting in the abandoned laundry room at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Valley Shearers Quarters afternoon and the staircase has satWindow light falls across worn floorboards inside the Valley Shearers Quarters, a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season. Buildings like this were common across the pastoral runs of Rural New South Wales, providing basic shelter for the men whose labour drove the wool economy. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.