Annex Door flock of birds Desks and chairs sit under

Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust

Looking Down Retort Building at Bathurst

Faded court lines mark the dusty floor alongside rusted equipment

its utilitarian surface edged by vegetation pressing in from the surrounding grounds

suited to a pastoral climate that asked a lot of its structures

Annex Door flock of birds Desks and chairs sit underA door to the Munitions Annex stands partially open, its surface stripped back to bare rusted metal and peeling paint. The annex was built in 1943 during wartime production at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works, a plant that by then had been supplying cement across Australia for four decades. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.