Old Timber Home Size:XL Mt Racey at Yubari

Mt Racey at Yubari

its slats buried under years of lichen and moss

Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney

where light cuts through broken windows onto a floor that once received wool

operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry

Old Timber Home Size:XL Mt Racey at YubariWeathered timber walls and a collapsing roof mark this abandoned dwelling in rural New South Wales, one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019. Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320 acre gambles, shearers' quarters, and family homesteads that emptied out across three generations of drought, displacement, and economic