Hand Basin Size:M The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking building

The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking building at Port Kembla Steelworks rises against an open sky

first as a tuberculosis sanitorium and later as a geriatric facility

Rows of neglected workbenches recede into the distance

Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

Light reaches in from windows at the far end

Hand Basin Size:M The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking buildingA porcelain hand basin, rust stained from years of disuse, sits fixed to the wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station. Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891, it now stands dry. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.