Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.
Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.

Telegraph And Telephone Office

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Camera
NIKON Z 7
Lens
180.0-400.0 mm f/4.0
Settings
240mm · f/8.0 · 1/320 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The telegraph and telephone office at The Woolshed shows its age. Discarded equipment and a dusty counter mark a centre of past communication. This space once connected remote stations to the wider world.

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Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.Telegraph And Telephone Office at The Woolshed, a weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Telegraph And Telephone Office
Series
The Woolshed
Catalogue
TWS-015
Process
Giclée
Captured
27 December 2018
Camera
NIKON Z 7
Lens
180.0-400.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/320 s
ISO
100
Focal length
240 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Various, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
03 THE STORY

About this print

The Telegraph and Telephone Office is a small weatherboard building set on its own block of country highway, the words TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE OFFICE painted in block capitals across the front. The building is single-room, with a verandah running along the front and gable ends in profile. The paint has faded but the lettering is still clear. The windows are boarded over with corrugated iron. A chimney pokes out at the back. The building is on a level patch of grass with a low timber fence surrounding the site.

Country telegraph offices were the public communications infrastructure of pre-radio Australia. They were placed along the main roads and rail lines so that messages could be sent from rural districts to the cities. By the mid-twentieth century, telephones had taken over and most of the smaller offices were closed and either demolished or sold off. A handful of these buildings survived because they were small, well-built, and not in anyone's way. The Telegraph and Telephone Office was photographed in 2018 as part of The Woolshed series, where it sits alongside woolsheds and farm structures rather than its own civic-infrastructure category. The label on the front is still a record of what the building was for.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A weatherboard building sits low in a clearing, its corrugated iron roof streaked with rust in broad patches of red and grey. A small sign near the roofline reads "Telegraph and Telephone Office." Tussock grass crowds the foreground. A timber power pole stands nearby, insulators still fixed to the crossarm. Snow gums climb the hillside behind, dense and pale-trunked. The light is flat, overcast. Timber cattle yards line up to the right.

Brett Patman

The Woolshed

The series

The Woolshed

2016 · 29 photographs

The Woolshed is a series of working and former working woolsheds across south-eastern New South Wales, predominantly the south-east hinterland and Snowy Monaro region. Most are timber-framed and clad in corrugated iron or timber weatherboards, weathered through decades of use. Some still shear; many do not, as farming priorities have shifted and shearing technology has changed. Woolsheds were sometimes important community meeting points, used for dances and other gatherings. The buildings were always built for function - appearance was never a factor in their design.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM THE WOOLSHED

28 other prints in this series

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Rocky Hall Woolshed $100.00
South Pambula Shed at The Woolshed, corrugated iron and weatherboard hold together in a patchwork of repairs and additions.
South Pambula Shed $100.00
Simple Shed at The Woolshed, corrugated iron walls sit grey and weathered against a gentle slope of dry grass.
Simple Shed $100.00
Shed In The Field at The Woolshed, a corrugated iron shed sits alone in open pastoral country.
Shed In The Field $100.00
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