Filing Cabinets chichibu Stairs Down at Bathurst

Stairs Down at Bathurst

Dust-covered timber stairs climb toward an open attic doorway

typical of the selector's cottages built across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward

outlasting generations of pastoral consolidation

A dark upholstered armchair sits against the corridor wall of the former Family School Fureai

Filing Cabinets chichibu Stairs Down at BathurstMetal filing cabinets stand in a derelict room, their grey surfaces thick with dust and the accumulated weight of a school's administrative life. These are the records rooms of Macquarie Boys' Technology High School, a postwar government campus in Rydalmere that operated from 1958 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.