Student Records bolts cardboard boxes flattened across the

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

Three armchairs sit on a concrete floor in what was the smoko area of the Northcote Shoe Factory

What remains today retains the physical evidence of a production process largely unchanged since the early twentieth century

from October 1973 until its closure on 7 December 2006

Student Records bolts cardboard boxes flattened across theStudent records left on the floor of a classroom block at Macquarie Boys' Technology High School, Rydalmere, undisturbed since the school closed at the end of 2009. Each file represents a student who passed through the campus before enrolments fell to 220 and the NSW Government shut the doors. Six years after closure, the records remained. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.