Delegate Shearers Front western australia purpose-built in 1957 to serve

purpose-built in 1957 to serve the Balmain Tigers community

corrugated iron roof striped with rust

Bunkyo-ku for 80 years before a fire in July 2007 displaced its final residents

photographed in 2015

The building is one of the rural vernacular structures Brett Patman photographed across the Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

Delegate Shearers Front western australia purpose-built in 1957 to serveThe weathered timber and corrugated iron facade of the Delegate shearers' quarters, its empty windows and peeling paint marking the end of seasonal work that once brought gangs of men together each year. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, one of the earliest pastoral frontiers in New South Wales, with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.