Dalgety Homestead table The Northcote Shoe Factory operated

The Northcote Shoe Factory operated from purpose-built premises on Arthurton Road from 1926

manoeuvring massive loads through the plant's primary production areas

supplying malt to one of New South Wales's largest breweries for 75 years

Dust coats the concrete floor of the loading area at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works

Brown Mountain rises behind it as a wall of eucalypt forest

Dalgety Homestead table The Northcote Shoe Factory operatedVerandah timbers rot, paint lifting from weatherboard walls, at a homestead in rural New South Wales that once sheltered a family through seasons of work and weather. The structure sits open to the elements now, its rooms emptied of everything except the silence left behind when the last occupant walked out. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.