House On The Hill Colour:Raw Blue pneumatic lines trail down

Blue pneumatic lines trail down to the production floor below

A screening conveyor sits rusting within Hornsby Quarry

Continuous slab casting was first commissioned at Port Kembla in 1978

three years' residence

House On The Hill Colour:Raw Blue pneumatic lines trail downA timber framed house stands alone on an exposed hill, its bleached facade open to sun and wind through broken windows. Structures like this one represent the long arc of rural settlement across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley, from the selector's gamble of the 1860s onward to the progressive abandonment that followed. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.