Farmstead yellow Inside Western Village's frontier town

Inside Western Village's frontier town post office

Massive pipes and gantries extend over the water at Port Botany's Bulk Liquids Berth

Weathered commemorative plaques affixed to a wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station

simple single-room shelters against the elements

Timber beams and roof tiles lie across the floor where a ceiling once held

Farmstead yellow Inside Western Village's frontier townTimber walls crumble, and empty window frames stare out over dormant fields. A vernacular slab timber farmstead, typical of the selector's cottages built across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, left to the slow work of weather and time. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.