Library Walkway dark Part of the Queen Victoria

Part of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium series

Part of The Woolshed series

weeds pushing through the ballast around them

When metal extraction ceased in 1978

and the population has been falling ever since

Library Walkway dark Part of the Queen VictoriaA covered walkway connects sections of the library block at the former Macquarie Boys' Technology High School in Rydalmere, its concrete walls stripped back by years of peeling paint and weather exposure. The campus sat vacant from 2009 until its demolition in 2018, deteriorating through neglect and repeated vandalism across nearly a decade. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.