Machining Workshop overcast A vernacular slab timber structure

A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward

Structures like this were built across rural New South Wales from the 1830s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal country

sunlight pressing through grimy windows onto the wreckage below

the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior

Machining Workshop overcast A vernacular slab timber structureThe workshop floor runs the full length of the building, bare concrete under steel roof trusses, whitewashed brick walls catching light from clerestory windows above. Tall timber doors line the far end. One of several industrial structures within the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works at Portland, NSW, the precinct produced cement from 1902 until November 1991 and is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. Part of the Portland Cement Works