Hand Water Pump sign pressing machinery and workbenches still

pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations

Its lower cabinet stands open and empty

power lines crossing overhead

Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond

of Sydney at the factory's 1939 opening

Hand Water Pump sign pressing machinery and workbenches stillA cast iron hand pump stands on a square pedestal in a paddock at Jembaicumbene, a galvanised bucket hung from its spout and tall grass grown up around its base. The property draws water from spring fed wells and a millpond that have supplied the land since the 1830s, when Roberts and Badgery established their pastoral estate on this stretch of granite country above Jembaicumbene Creek. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.