Hills urban sprawl Steel shelving lines the storeroom

Steel shelving lines the storeroom of the Northcote Shoe Factory

A rusted horseshoe lies on the grimy floorboards of a slab cottage built around 1890 in the Southern Tablelands

its windows dark and faded signage above the entrance hinting at past custom

Both structures formed the core of the surface complex BHP Collieries built near Abernethy to supply coal to its Newcastle steelworks

their surfaces fractured

Hills urban sprawl Steel shelving lines the storeroomMounds of dust and rubble have settled across the floor of this slab cottage in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, light falling through broken windows onto the accumulated debris. Around 130 years old as of 2020, the building began as a domestic dwelling before being converted to an agricultural shed. Part of the Leichhardt House series.