Ironmungie Road Woolshed Size:XS Two girls stand inside a

Two girls stand inside a classroom at Family School Fureai

The raised stage at the far end sits stripped and open

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

the kitchen standing exactly as it was left after the July 2007 fire displaced the dormitory's last residents

consolidating three predecessor schools into one reinforced-concrete three-storey structure

Ironmungie Road Woolshed Size:XS Two girls stand inside aMismatched corrugated iron panels cover the walls of this large rural woolshed, rust bleeding across the ridgeline where the sheets meet. The gable end faces open pasture under a heavy, cloud layered sky. Corrugated galvanised iron became the dominant cladding material for Australian rural buildings from the 1850s, suited to a pastoral climate that asked a lot of its structures. Part of The Woolshed series.