Hunter Shack Size:XS Self Serve at Bankstown

Self Serve at Bankstown

an empty room sits under peeling paint

conduit and cable trailing across a concrete floor covered in debris

built from local hardwood and galvanised iron from the 1850s onward

Bombala Station opened for passenger services on 21 November 1921 and closed on 26 March 1986

Hunter Shack Size:XS Self Serve at BankstownA single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers, the corrugated iron roof above it rusted to a deep brown red. This isolated dwelling sits somewhere in the Hunter Valley, one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab and iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.