Brooding Skies timber ceiling The school closed at the

The school closed at the end of 2009 after enrolments fell to 220 students

A corrugated iron roof spreads across one of the larger structures at Waratah Park

The rear doors open onto overgrown grounds

rust bleeding across the roof panels and a collapsed structure nearby

Brooding Skies timber ceiling The school closed at theWeathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky, its slab construction a record of the hands that built and then left it. Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for 1 per acre, three years' residence required, and the Monaro doing its best to collect on the debt. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.