Abattoir Managers Quarters tap Four such presses were planned

Four such presses were planned when Standard Brick and Tile Co

receiving raw clay before it moved through the grinding pans and presses

and gaming revenue for more than five decades

designed by architect George Sydney Jones between 1902 and 1921

what stands now is the shell

Abattoir Managers Quarters tap Four such presses were plannedA timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow, half consumed by scrub, with power lines crossing the hill above and a dirt track climbing behind. Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre, three years' residence, and whatever the land would give. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.