Brown Mountain Backdrop basket one of 59 structures Brett

one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

The factory on Arthurton Road was purpose-built in 1926

sustaining the Balmain Tigers rugby league football club through bar

cloud-layered sky

Clerestory windows at the far end throw light across the mess

Brown Mountain Backdrop basket one of 59 structures BrettA timber and corrugated iron dairy building stands on a ridge near Brown Mountain, its rust streaked walls leaning slightly as the frame settles. Brown Mountain rises behind it as a wall of eucalypt forest, blue grey in the haze. The building type was made essential by on farm cream separation in the 1880s and redundant by bulk milk collection in 1966. Part of The Dairy series.