Reclaimed Home Size:XL sits against a peeling wall

sits against a peeling wall in one of the patient bathroom facilities at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales

and these gauges would have monitored the steam plant that ran here continuously from 1921 until full electrification in 1982

replacing bark and split-timber shingles across NSW pastoral country

Reclaimed Home Size:XL sits against a peeling wallSunlight breaks through a broken window into a room where vines have taken over the walls and floor. The dwelling is one of the vernacular slab and timber homesteads photographed across rural New South Wales, structures that mark where selector families once put down roots and where the land has since moved on without them. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.