Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White Rehabilitation Waiting Room at Kaga

Rehabilitation Waiting Room at Kaga

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

pulling the walls away from the frame

the footprints of machinery that processed dolerite for northern Sydney's roads for most of the twentieth century

Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White Rehabilitation Waiting Room at KagaA 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.