Home Amongst The Gums Colour:N/A Built during the Gold Rush

Built during the Gold Rush era

Washing Area at Blayney

Peeling walls and a debris-strewn floor mark the passage of decades since the last patients left the Kirkbride Complex in 1994

one of the abandoned selector's cottages and pastoral dwellings photographed across rural New South Wales

closed 28 March 2010 and sat derelict for years before demolition

Home Amongst The Gums Colour:N/A Built during the Gold RushA timber dwelling stands amongst eucalyptus trees, its corrugated iron roof deep with rust, paint peeling from weathered walls. Structures like this were raised across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal pastoral land. The bush has been reclaiming it ever since. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.