Hand Water Pump sign supporters

supporters

photographed in 2015 before demolition the following year

Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond

its surface stripped back to rust patterns and peeling grey paint accumulated across decades of operation

NSW State Emblem at Eveleigh

Hand Water Pump sign supportersA cast iron hand pump stands on a square pedestal in a paddock at Jembaicumbene, a galvanised bucket hung from its spout and tall grass grown up around its base. The property draws water from spring fed wells and a millpond that have supplied the land since the 1830s, when Roberts and Badgery established their pastoral estate on this stretch of granite country above Jembaicumbene Creek. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.