Testing Room Size:XL Sunrise at Lake Macquarie

Sunrise at Lake Macquarie

Molten slag spills from a ladle at Port Kembla Steelworks

This science classroom at Macquarie Boys Technology High School in Rydalmere looks as though a lesson was interrupted and never resumed

Layers of peeling paint record the years between the factory floor's last shift and the day Brett Patman walked in

A green beauty salon sign still clings to the upper facade of a two-storey commercial building in Yubari

Testing Room Size:XL Sunrise at Lake MacquarieThe testing room at Portland Cement Works Precinct sits largely as it was left, benches along the walls, dust settled across every surface. This chamber sat within the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's processing operation, where product quality was checked before cement left the works. Portland Cement Works Precinct operated from 1902 until cement production ceased in November 1991. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.