Old Timber Home device The Alleyway at Lake Macquarie

The Alleyway at Lake Macquarie

The corrugated iron goods shed at Bombala Railway Station

Hanging Garden at Waterfall

Peeling paint and corroded fixtures mark the passage of decades since this space served the factory workforce

a detail of domestic life left behind when the Victoria Road venue closed in March 2010

Old Timber Home device The Alleyway at Lake MacquarieWeathered timber walls and a collapsing roof mark this abandoned dwelling in rural New South Wales, one of 59 structures Brett Patman photographed across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019. Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320 acre gambles, shearers' quarters, and family homesteads that emptied out across three generations of drought, displacement, and economic