Hunter Shack electrical its metal frame corroded and

its metal frame corroded and its surface thick with dust

paint peeling in thick sheets from the surface around them

The boiler house basement of West Ryde Pumping Station holds large pipe runs and decayed machinery

the reinforced concrete building in Kohinata

its lettering faded but still legible

Hunter Shack electrical its metal frame corroded andA single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers, the corrugated iron roof above it rusted to a deep brown red. This isolated dwelling sits somewhere in the Hunter Valley, one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab and iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.