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its rusted frame and peeling paint marking years of disuse

rust working across every metal surface

its lettering faded but still legible

The football field at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

Tin Drovers Hut mattress Blayney Rainbow at Australia andA corrugated iron drovers' hut stands in open, dry country, its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure. Structures like this were built to shelter drovers moving stock across the Monaro and surrounding plains, simple single room shelters against the elements. The research file notes over 200 historic huts survive across the Australian Alps national parks; many more, unprotected, remain on private pastoral land. Part of the A Place to Call Home