Springfield Drovers Hut empty room Weathered commemorative plaques affixed to

Weathered commemorative plaques affixed to a wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station

Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

Quarrying at Hornsby ran from around 1905 until 2002

sitting within a 12

it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region

Springfield Drovers Hut empty room Weathered commemorative plaques affixed toWeathered timber walls and a corrugated iron roof give the Springfield Drovers Hut its characteristic form, the structure long exposed to the seasonal extremes of rural New South Wales. Drovers' huts like this one were built to shelter stockmen on long cattle drives across the region, single room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.