Power House Northern Interior steelgrate its corrugated iron roof sagging

its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades

with paint chips and debris across the floor and light falling through a line of open doorways

Light falls from above onto stripped infrastructure

This machinery was part of the crusher plant that processed dolerite across the operational years of the site

three years' residence

Power House Northern Interior steelgrate its corrugated iron roof saggingInside the Powerhouse at Portland Cement Works, massive machinery stands silent beneath a steel truss roof. Originally two separate buildings joined as a single structure by 1910, the Powerhouse was central to cement production at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's works from 1902. An overhead gantry crane once ran the length of the building; the iron girders were imported from the same English manufacturer that supplied the Eveleigh Street