Traps corner Bag Loading Area at Kandos

Bag Loading Area at Kandos

Intact signage and dust-covered stock record a business that simply stopped

Part of the infrastructure built to sustain a community of miners and their families through the peak decades of Chichibu Mine

A weathered timber shack stands alone on Myrtle Mountain

layers of newspaper pressed into the surface as draught insulation against the Southern Tablelands winters

Traps corner Bag Loading Area at KandosA pair of rusted steel jaw traps lie on the floor of Leichhardt House, their decaying wooden components lost among the surrounding debris. Once farm tools for pest control, they now gather dust inside a slab timber cottage built around 130 years ago in the NSW Southern Tablelands. Part of the Leichhardt House series.