Dark Room bath tools left in place where

tools left in place where they were last set down

caught in broken light that falls through failing walls

and emptied as metal extraction wound down

providing basic shelter for the men whose labour drove the wool economy

YKK converted it to group lodging in the mid-1990s

Dark Room bath tools left in place whereThe dark room at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, captured in 2015, still holds the chemical stains of decades of development work. A red safe light hangs above the benches where students once coaxed images from paper. The school operated in Rydalmere from 1957 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.