Old Timber Home device The corrugated iron goods shed

The corrugated iron goods shed at Bombala Railway Station

Hanging Garden at Waterfall

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

a detail of domestic life left behind when the Victoria Road venue closed in March 2010

A single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers

Old Timber Home device The corrugated iron goods shedWeathered timber walls and a collapsing roof mark this abandoned dwelling in rural New South Wales, one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019. Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320 acre gambles, shearers' quarters, and family homesteads that emptied out across three generations of drought, displacement, and economic