Delegate River Size:M paint lifts from the counter

paint lifts from the counter in long curling strips and a single ceiling fixture hangs over dust that has settled across every surface since December 2006

sunlight cutting through broken windows to catch the dust hanging in the still air

Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived at Port Kembla in 1972

hardwood floor buried under debris and scattered timber

Delegate River Size:M paint lifts from the counterCorrugated iron in faded pale blue and rust red wraps a timber framed shearing shed raised on wooden stumps, the tall grass beneath uncut, eucalypt and pine forest pressing close behind. Sheds like this one were the working heart of any wool producing station, built from local hardwood and galvanised iron from the 1850s onward. Part of The Woolshed series.