Shearers Quarters outdoors Clerestory windows at the far

Clerestory windows at the far end throw light across the mess

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

Talbot" stands in rural New South Wales

The final section of the office block at the ATL Building on Nancarrow Avenue

The club operated from its purpose-built Rozelle premises from 1957

Shearers Quarters outdoors Clerestory windows at the farSunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales, catching dust in the still air above peeling paint and splintered timber. Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond. The building is returning to the land by degrees. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.