Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White its keys fused and blackened

its keys fused and blackened by fire

structures that mark where selector families once put down roots and where the land has since moved on without them

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

Rehabilitation Waiting Room at Kaga

Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White its keys fused and blackenedA timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow, half consumed by scrub, with power lines crossing the hill above and a dirt track climbing behind. Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre, three years' residence, and whatever the land would give. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.