Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White structures that mark where selector

structures that mark where selector families once put down roots and where the land has since moved on without them

designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet on the principle that the building itself was part of the cure

This was the staff welfare building on the Nancarrow Avenue site

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

paying guests

Abattoir Managers Quarters Colour:White structures that mark where selectorA timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow, half consumed by scrub, with power lines crossing the hill above and a dirt track climbing behind. Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre, three years' residence, and whatever the land would give. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.