Timber Weatherboards Colour:N/A The space sits above a

The space sits above a site that operated from 1884 until August 1988

A concrete ramp drops into the two-level basement of the former Balmain Leagues Club

built after the Robertson Land Acts opened the Monaro to smallholders from 1861 onward

Front Yard at Lake Macquarie

Timber Weatherboards Colour:N/A The space sits above aLayers of grey paint peel from timber weatherboards on a derelict selector's cottage in rural New South Wales, raw wood exposed where decades of weather have done their work. Structures like this one represent the later period of pastoral settlement, post 1880s weatherboard construction marking a step up from the slab huts that preceded them. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.