Brooding Skies timber ceiling its steel-framed mass placing it

its steel-framed mass placing it among the defining structures of Australia's largest crude steel production plant

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

A corrugated iron roof spreads across one of the larger structures at Waratah Park

the largest diatreme exposure in the Sydney Basin

Stacks of graph paper rolls sit gathering dust inside West Ryde Pumping Station

Brooding Skies timber ceiling its steel-framed mass placing itWeathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky, its slab construction a record of the hands that built and then left it. Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for 1 per acre, three years' residence required, and the Monaro doing its best to collect on the debt. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.