Dark Room bath Built in 1859 as the

Built in 1859 as the Commercial Hotel during the Gold Rush expansion of Wallace Street

then as a public lodging facility under Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu

providing basic shelter for the men whose labour drove the wool economy

and emptied as metal extraction wound down

Dark Room bath Built in 1859 as theThe dark room at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, captured in 2015, still holds the chemical stains of decades of development work. A red safe light hangs above the benches where students once coaxed images from paper. The school operated in Rydalmere from 1957 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.