Hanging Scale bunding the track bed lost beneath

the track bed lost beneath years of growth

closing permanently in August 1988

designed by architect George Sydney Jones and opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for male patients

Donated alongside it were bale-weighing scales and stone sharpening wheels

Hanging Scale bunding the track bed lost beneathA hanging scale, its dial rusted and frozen, hangs inside Leichhardt House, a colonial vernacular slab cottage built around 1890 in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands. The dwelling operated as a family home for most of the twentieth century before conversion to an agricultural shed. Part of the Leichhardt House series.