Myrtle Mountain Shack brown paint peeling from the uprights

paint peeling from the uprights

000 remained

one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab-and-iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference

its framework catching the flat light of a site that processed dolerite aggregate for almost a century

Part of the Western Village series

Myrtle Mountain Shack brown paint peeling from the uprightsA weathered timber shack stands alone on Myrtle Mountain, its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades, paint peeling back to reveal the layers beneath. Structures like this were built across rural New South Wales from the 1830s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal country. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.