Stone Wheel Frame sliding doors the boiler house chimney rising

the boiler house chimney rising behind it under a flat grey sky

This isolated dwelling sits somewhere in the Hunter Valley

and a green-painted gantry staircase running along the left

once produced precision-engineered betting systems for racecourses across 29 countries

Stone Wheel Frame sliding doors the boiler house chimney risingA foot powered grindstone on a splayed timber frame sits inside a shed at Mill Pond Farm, Jembaicumbene. Straw covers the floor; chain and a caged lamp hang on the rear wall beside a louvred shutter. The farm's pastoral and milling history stretches back to the 1830s, when Roberts and Badgery established the original estate on this Southern Tablelands creek. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.