Chakola Shack cracked The switching room sits within

The switching room sits within the ATL Building at Nancarrow Avenue

Slag is the unavoidable by-product of iron and steel production

Stripped electrical cables hang from the ceiling of the derelict Balmain Leagues Club

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

Coal production ended in 1990

Chakola Shack cracked The switching room sits withinTimber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain, the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior. A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.