Farmstead yellow Timber beams and roof tiles

Timber beams and roof tiles lie across the floor where a ceiling once held

Massive pipes and gantries extend over the water at Port Botany's Bulk Liquids Berth

a postwar government school that closed with 220 students on the roll

The kitchen of Family School Fureai

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

Farmstead yellow Timber beams and roof tilesTimber walls crumble, and empty window frames stare out over dormant fields. A vernacular slab timber farmstead, typical of the selector's cottages built across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, left to the slow work of weather and time. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.