Delegate Shearers Quarters coat of arms Double steel doors open onto

Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond

Lavender at Australia and Japan

which operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

Delegate Shearers Quarters coat of arms Double steel doors open ontoA long dormitory stretches the length of the Delegate Shearers Quarters, its worn floorboards gathering dust beneath paint that has peeled back in sheets. The building is part of the pastoral infrastructure of southern New South Wales, built to house the shearing gangs who moved station to station across the Monaro tableland. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.