Springfield Drovers Hut Colour:Black sunlight cutting through the dust

sunlight cutting through the dust settling across scattered textbooks

coated in five years of dust

5 million kilolitres annually

Engawa at Nikko

The factory on Arthurton Road was purpose-built in 1926 and operating as the Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s

Springfield Drovers Hut Colour:Black sunlight cutting through the dustWeathered timber walls and a corrugated iron roof give the Springfield Drovers Hut its characteristic form, the structure long exposed to the seasonal extremes of rural New South Wales. Drovers' huts like this one were built to shelter stockmen on long cattle drives across the region, single room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.