Tin Drovers Hut fauna A cast iron and timber

A cast iron and timber bench sits in uncut grass at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

its appliances corroding and wall paint curling away from the plaster

five years after the club's closure on 28 March 2010

sits against a peeling wall in one of the patient bathroom facilities at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Dust-covered machinery sits idle across the eastern section of ABBCO Bakery's main production floor

Tin Drovers Hut fauna A cast iron and timberA corrugated iron drovers' hut stands in open, dry country, its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure. Structures like this were built to shelter drovers moving stock across the Monaro and surrounding plains, simple single room shelters against the elements. The research file notes over 200 historic huts survive across the Australian Alps national parks; many more, unprotected, remain on private pastoral land. Part of the A Place to Call Home