Tin Drovers Hut mattress The football field at Macquarie

The football field at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

Built by owner-builder David Smith Todd between 1880 and 1894

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rust working across every metal surface

Dust settles on empty rooms

Tin Drovers Hut mattress The football field at MacquarieA corrugated iron drovers' hut stands in open, dry country, its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure. Structures like this were built to shelter drovers moving stock across the Monaro and surrounding plains, simple single room shelters against the elements. The research file notes over 200 historic huts survive across the Australian Alps national parks; many more, unprotected, remain on private pastoral land. Part of the A Place to Call Home