Chakola Shack cracked The park operated as a

The park operated as a Western American-themed attraction in Nikko from October 1973 until December 2006

housed the administration of a company whose precision-engineered machines counted bets at racecourses across 29 countries

The building is one of several on the 12

Stripped electrical cables hang from the ceiling of the derelict Balmain Leagues Club

surfaces thickened with dust

Chakola Shack cracked The park operated as aTimber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain, the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior. A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.