Matong Hut inner west closed as a school in

closed as a school in 1983

and these gauges would have monitored the steam plant that ran here continuously from 1921 until full electrification in 1982

A sewing desk sits in the corner of the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory

A corrugated iron roof spreads across one of the larger structures at Waratah Park

Warilla at New South Wales

Matong Hut inner west closed as a school inWeathered timber walls, once painted pink, stand beneath a corrugated iron roof somewhere in rural New South Wales. A brick chimney rises at one end; flat grass paddocks stretch out in every direction, cloud building low on the horizon. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.