What do the 'leftovers' in your neighbourhood tell you about the place?
Driving into Singleton this morning I was greeted by this massive pile of tailings.
The client I met with told me how much the mining companies have impacted the life of the town. Some of the mining companies donate significant funds back into the community as well as employing local people.
The tailings, the railway tracks, the payloaders ... they all tell you about the town and its character.
Our neighbourhood has very few 'leftovers' - but just down the road there is an old paddock and a rusty barbed wire fence.
What is now medium-density housing was once a thriving farming area. Just the other day a client was telling me that he remembers learning to drive on a farm out here.
In a previous suburb we lived in the style of houses said it all: a place largely settled by returned soldiers who bought their blocks, build a simple garage, and lived in it while they built their own fibro homes.
There are tales in the tailings. Having your eyes open enriches your understanding of where you are, and what has made it what it is.
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