Radio staircase it represents the arc of

it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region

the final stop of a network that took 37 years to push south across the Monaro tablelands

Dust-covered timber stairs climb toward an open attic doorway

An empty stretcher sits in the sick room of Family School Fureai

Operated by NSW Government Railways from 21 November 1921

Radio staircase it represents the arc ofAn old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory, its metal casing thick with rust. It would have lived in the smoko area, the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people. The factory on Arthurton Road operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.