Chakola Shack cracked Coal production ended in 1990

Coal production ended in 1990

Stripped electrical cables hang from the ceiling of the derelict Balmain Leagues Club

housed the administration of a company whose precision-engineered machines counted bets at racecourses across 29 countries

The factory opened in November 1939 and operated for approximately six decades as one of the Manning Valley's principal employers

Emission Stacks at Wangi Wangi

Chakola Shack cracked Coal production ended in 1990Timber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain, the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior. A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.