Colac Shed Size:M A timber-shingled cylindrical tower topped

A timber-shingled cylindrical tower topped with a copper geodesic dome stands at the entrance of the Coal Mining History Village

one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab-and-iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference

in its final years

from 1884 until the last clinical services wound down through the 1990s

The Commonwealth Portland Cement Company built this structure as part of the Federation-era plant that commenced cement production on 4 August 1902

Colac Shed Size:M A timber-shingled cylindrical tower toppedCorrugated iron walls and a collapsing roofline define this derelict farm shed, rust bleeding across mismatched sheets in broad patches. Timber fence rails run along the front, a cypress standing behind. Structures like this were the working heart of smaller pastoral holdings across NSW and Victoria, now largely silent since station consolidation reduced the sheep numbers that once kept them busy. Part of The Woolshed series.