Wireless yellow Thirroul at New South Wales

Thirroul at New South Wales

its cracked casing and frayed wires coated in dust

rust bleeding across metal fittings left in place when the plant closed in the late 1990s

This passageway was the daily route for a complement of 39 personnel during the vessel's 27 years servicing lighthouses

Wireless yellow Thirroul at New South WalesAn obsolete wireless receiver sits abandoned on a surface inside Leichhardt House, its cracked casing and frayed wires coated in dust. The set dates occupation of this c. 1890 slab hut to at least the mid twentieth century, long after the building's original domestic life gave way to agricultural use. Part of the Leichhardt House series.