Deddick Valley Woolshed Size:S first opened to female patients

first opened to female patients on 19 December 1884

Shafts of sunlight push through gaps in the iron cladding

concrete surfaces stripped back by decades of weathering and peeling paint scattered across the floor

The feeder bin house at Box Hill Brickworks: corroded metal and peeling paint on a structure that fed raw clay into the brickmaking process

Deddick Valley Woolshed Size:S first opened to female patientsEmpty catching pens and weathered timber framing inside a woolshed near Deddick Valley, the corrugated iron walls rusting back into the landscape. Sheds like this were the operational centre of any wool producing station, built from local hardwood and galvanised iron to last a working lifetime. Part of The Woolshed series.