Delegate Shearers Rear Colour:White Seven at Lake Macquarie

Seven at Lake Macquarie

ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884

Rows of game machines sit where crowds once queued

A steel workbench on castors stands against the far wall beneath a corrugated iron ceiling

light cutting through broken windows to reveal what the bakery left behind

Delegate Shearers Rear Colour:White Seven at Lake MacquarieCorrugated iron and aged timber form the rear wall of the shearers' quarters in Delegate, weathered by seasons of use and years of stillness since. The building once provided basic accommodation for rural workers during the shearing season, sitting within a pastoral district whose European settlement dates to 1827. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.