Hunter Hilltop Colour:N/A sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry

sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry

This was the maintenance side of a factory that at its peak employed 139 maintenance workers alone

single-room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else

Ceiling panels hang loose above debris-covered floors

grout blackened and plumbing fittings stripped bare

Hunter Hilltop Colour:N/A sits abandoned inside Hornsby QuarryA derelict dwelling sits on an exposed Hunter hilltop, its broken windows open to the valley below. Structures like this represent the furthest reach of rural settlement across New South Wales, built by selectors and graziers and left behind as the land became unworkable. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.