Reclaimed Home Size:L Yubari: rows of faded green

Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles

Coal Weigher at Rozelle

These are the remnants of rural settlement in the Snowy Monaro region

opening in 1975 as a consolidation of three predecessor schools and closing in 1983 as Yubari's coal economy hollowed out the city's population

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

Reclaimed Home Size:L Yubari: rows of faded greenSunlight breaks through a broken window into a room where vines have taken over the walls and floor. The dwelling is one of the vernacular slab and timber homesteads photographed across rural New South Wales, structures that mark where selector families once put down roots and where the land has since moved on without them. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.