Pump Hall Facing North afternoon its corrugated iron shell catching

its corrugated iron shell catching the light against a wide rural sky

with construction completed in 1885

Sunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales

Small square windows punctuate the long facade

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

Pump Hall Facing North afternoon its corrugated iron shell catchingThe main pump hall of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015 facing north, concrete floor thick with dust and paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips. Station No. 2 was completed in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia, and listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2002. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.