Abattoir Managers Quarters tap which operated as a wildlife

which operated as a wildlife park from January 1970 until 2006

the works turned out 27 million bottles annually

flat grass paddocks stretch out in every direction

light pushing through a broken window onto disused fixtures

Abattoir Managers Quarters tap which operated as a wildlifeA timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow, half consumed by scrub, with power lines crossing the hill above and a dirt track climbing behind. Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre, three years' residence, and whatever the land would give. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.