Bemboka Woolshed machines The factory at Chatham opened

The factory at Chatham opened in November 1939

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

walls textured by decades of damp and stillness

Metal extraction at the mine ceased in 1978

Blue Morning Ranges at Australia and Japan

Bemboka Woolshed machines The factory at Chatham openedA timber clad woolshed sits raised on stumps in open paddock, its rusted corrugated iron roof edged by a dead tree leaning against the wall. Rolling green hills and a stand of pines fill the background. Traditional woolshed construction, local hardwood framing, corrugated iron cladding widespread in Australian rural buildings from the 1850s. Part of The Woolshed series.