Old Timber Home device Turbine Governor at Rozelle

Turbine Governor at Rozelle

Peeling paint and corroded fixtures mark the passage of decades since this space served the factory workforce

The corrugated iron goods shed at Bombala Railway Station

A single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers

built around Chichibu Mine from the late 1930s

Old Timber Home device Turbine Governor at RozelleWeathered timber walls and a collapsing roof mark this abandoned dwelling in rural New South Wales, one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019. Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320 acre gambles, shearers' quarters, and family homesteads that emptied out across three generations of drought, displacement, and economic