Dispatch rural hinting at the rooms beyond

hinting at the rooms beyond

graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it

Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series

one of several timber-framed false-front facades built to replicate 1880s American main-street architecture

fabric scraps and tools left where production stopped

Dispatch rural hinting at the rooms beyondA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.