Springfield Drovers Hut empty room what remained was the brick

what remained was the brick shell

sitting within a 12

Summer Hill

it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region

Painted plaster peeling from the walls of a corridor in the Kirkbride Complex

Springfield Drovers Hut empty room what remained was the brickWeathered timber walls and a corrugated iron roof give the Springfield Drovers Hut its characteristic form, the structure long exposed to the seasonal extremes of rural New South Wales. Drovers' huts like this one were built to shelter stockmen on long cattle drives across the region, single room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.