English Block rock each surface thick with settled

each surface thick with settled dust

A dark upholstered armchair sits against the corridor wall of the former Family School Fureai

light falling through broken windows onto dust-covered surfaces

its walls shedding paint and dust settling across the tables and chairs left behind

Heavy machinery crowds the blower room of the Mungo Scott Flour Mill

English Block rock each surface thick with settledA derelict classroom inside the English Block at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, Rydalmere. Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust, textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.