Verandah forecourt The building sits within a

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

and rust bleeds down the fence posts along the path that once led residents to the kiosk window and mail slot

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

six years into the campus's vacancy

supplying blue metal aggregate for road construction across northern Sydney

Verandah forecourt The building sits within aSunlight tracks across the decaying timbers of the Big Hill Post Office verandah, lifting the peeling paint in long curls from the boards. The verandah ran along the bedroom wing of the old postmaster's residence, a building that served the surrounding grazing district from 1 November 1869 until 1945. Part of the Big Hill Post Office series.