Magazine Hatch vents The school ran from its

The school ran from its North Parramatta campus from 1958

Post-WWII surplus Nissen huts found a second life across the Australian countryside as farm buildings

paint peeled back to bare grain

Broken window panes admit the only light

a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season

Magazine Hatch vents The school ran from itsRust blooms across the heavy steel door of a magazine hatch at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering. The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward, each detail designed around the possibility of accidental detonation. Part of the Newington Armory series.