Rusted Roof vacancy Cold light pushes through a

Cold light pushes through a grimy window

leaving the building to sit untouched for years

Structures like this one represent the long arc of rural settlement across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley

the mounting points and cable runs left behind when the generating equipment was removed after the station closed in 1970

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

Rusted Roof vacancy Cold light pushes through aA weatherboard farmhouse stands in open pasture, its corrugated iron roof consumed by rust. Sheets of iron lie scattered across the ground where they have fallen, and a brick chimney rises on the left against a press of old growth trees behind. Timber weatherboards and a standing chimney point to a later selector's cottage, built after the Robertson Land Acts opened the Monaro to smallholders from 1861 onward. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.