Springfield Drovers Hut empty room dry country

dry country

Weathered commemorative plaques affixed to a wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station

Quarrying at Hornsby ran from around 1905 until 2002

Four such presses were planned when Standard Brick and Tile Co

Summer Hill

Springfield Drovers Hut empty room dry countryWeathered 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.