Fireplace and Chimney Colour:White oxidised to a flat grey

oxidised to a flat grey

closed eight years later as the coal industry hollowed out the city

its metal casing thick with rust

sits within a yard that stretches roughly 900 metres across the Monaro tablelands

a city that once supported over 100

Fireplace and Chimney Colour:White oxidised to a flat greyA rendered fireplace and brick chimney stand at the centre of a derelict room inside the Mill Pond Farm homestead at Jembaicumbene, New South Wales. Whitewashed fibre cement walls, a scattered timber plank floor, and partly exposed roof framing surround it. The farmhouse dates to the 1830s, when William Henry Roberts and Andrew Badgery established the original pastoral estate on Walbanga country. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.