Chakola Shack cracked housed the administration of a

housed the administration of a company whose precision-engineered machines counted bets at racecourses across 29 countries

The building is one of several on the 12

a spray-painted face staring outward from the partition wall

surfaces thickened with dust

The factory opened in November 1939 and operated for approximately six decades as one of the Manning Valley's principal employers

Chakola Shack cracked housed the administration of aTimber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain, the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior. A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.