Cast Iron Sharpener toys rusted laundry machines stand where

rusted laundry machines stand where workers once cleaned up after shifts in one of Australia's most significant cement plants

picking out peeling paint and a layer of dust on the floor

has stood for more than 130 years

BHP opened an engineering works on the same site in June 1964

Cast Iron Sharpener toys rusted laundry machines stand whereA rusted cast iron sharpening stand, hand wheel, and toothed drive gear sit in dry grass against the weathered timber wall of one of Mill Pond Farm's outbuildings at Jembaicumbene. The farm dates to the 1830s, when Roberts and Badgery established the pastoral estate on Walbanga country in the Southern Tablelands. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.