Myrtle Mountain Shack brown one of the smaller structures

one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab-and-iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference

Part of the Western Village series

The dock sat at the operational edge of a factory that had been producing glass continuously since 1890

Charge cranes were central to the steelmaking process

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Myrtle Mountain Shack brown one of the smaller structuresA weathered timber shack stands alone on Myrtle Mountain, its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades, paint peeling back to reveal the layers beneath. Structures like this were built across rural New South Wales from the 1830s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal country. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.