Valley Shearers Quarters Size:XL The amenities building that housed

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

The Wall at Lake Macquarie

its metallic surface marked by decades of intense heat and hard use

a corrugated iron roof gone deep with rust

its metal surfaces marked by decades of decay

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.