Shearers Quarters outdoors Clerestory windows at the far

Clerestory windows at the far end throw light across the mess

when corporate rationalisation shifted production elsewhere

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

Entry Level Guest Room at Nikko

from 1957 until it closed on 28 March 2010

Shearers Quarters outdoors Clerestory windows at the farSunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales, catching dust in the still air above peeling paint and splintered timber. Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond. The building is returning to the land by degrees. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.