Springfield Drovers Hut Colour:Black Rust stains streak the sill

Rust stains streak the sill of a grimy mill window

Bombala Station opened for passenger services on 21 November 1921 and closed on 26 March 1986

coated in five years of dust

sunlight cutting through the dust settling across scattered textbooks

and distributed pavilions as the treatment itself

Springfield Drovers Hut Colour:Black Rust stains streak the sillWeathered timber walls and a corrugated iron roof give the Springfield Drovers Hut its characteristic form, the structure long exposed to the seasonal extremes of rural New South Wales. Drovers' huts like this one were built to shelter stockmen on long cattle drives across the region, single room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.