Beloka Woolshed arrow Fading student artwork still covers

Fading student artwork still covers the walls

one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales

Weathered commemorative plaques affixed to a wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station

a structure once integral to moving materials across the site

recording significant dates and names from the facility's operational history

Beloka Woolshed arrow Fading student artwork still coversTwo corrugated iron farm buildings sit low in a paddock, rusted roof panels and timber stockyard rails holding their shape against open rolling country. A lone poplar stands off to one side. Corrugated iron like this became standard on Australian rural buildings from the 1850s, outlasting generations of pastoral consolidation. Part of The Woolshed series.