Valley Shearers Quarters Size:XL The amenities building that housed

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

000 people at its 1960 peak

A metal filing cabinet stands inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory

A hand-painted sign for the Rodeo Coffee Shop hangs above a dusty entrance

The Wall at Lake Macquarie

Valley Shearers Quarters Size:XL The amenities building that housedWindow light falls across worn floorboards inside the Valley Shearers Quarters, a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season. Buildings like this were common across the pastoral runs of Rural New South Wales, providing basic shelter for the men whose labour drove the wool economy. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.