Snowy River Shearers Quarters Colour:White Bunkyo-ku sat sealed and abandoned

Bunkyo-ku sat sealed and abandoned for six years after a July 2007 fire before its demolition in 2013

A piano stands on the floor of a disused room inside the former Family School Fureai building in Yubari

Gymnasium at Yubari

A ballast truck sits abandoned on the tracks at Bombala Railway Station

The campus closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2018

Snowy River Shearers Quarters Colour:White Bunkyo-ku sat sealed and abandonedA low timber and corrugated iron shearers' quarters sits beneath a row of Lombardy poplars in the Snowy River region, stock yards flanking it on either side. Buildings like this housed the itinerant shearers and station hands who kept the Monaro's wool industry moving across the pastoral boom years of the 1870s to 1890s. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.