Valley Shearers Quarters Size:XL of Sydney at the factory's

of Sydney at the factory's 1939 opening

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

its metallic surface marked by decades of intense heat and hard use

000 people at its 1960 peak

Ventilation of this kind was standard in adhesive-heavy footwear manufacturing

Valley Shearers Quarters Size:XL of Sydney at the factory'sWindow light falls across worn floorboards inside the Valley Shearers Quarters, a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season. Buildings like this were common across the pastoral runs of Rural New South Wales, providing basic shelter for the men whose labour drove the wool economy. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.