Delegate Shack portrait its walls deep with rust

its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure

A green first aid sign hangs above a gutted doorframe on the first floor of Peters Creameries Pty Ltd Factory at Chatham

post-1880s weatherboard construction marking a step up from the slab huts that preceded them

The weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters

A weathered fence line runs along Mogilla Road in rural New South Wales

Delegate Shack portrait its walls deep with rustA weatherboard cottage on the outskirts of Delegate, corrugated iron roof striped with rust, its front verandah half consumed by encroaching shrubs. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, Ngarigo country, one of the earliest European settled corners of New South Wales. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.