Brooding Skies Size:S with European settlement reaching this

with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827

Part of the Box Hill Brickworks series

The former storage room sat untouched through nearly a decade of vacancy before the entire campus was demolished in 2018

sat abandoned by the time Lost Collective photographed it in 2015

Brooding Skies Size:S with European settlement reaching thisWeathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky, its slab construction a record of the hands that built and then left it. Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for 1 per acre, three years' residence required, and the Monaro doing its best to collect on the debt. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.