Warehouse lockers Peeling paint and cracked tiles

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

remnants of a facility that handled gunpowder

and explosives for the Royal Australian Navy

rust bleeding across mismatched sheets in broad patches

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Warehouse lockers Peeling paint and cracked tilesConcrete floor, grimy windows, and the ghosts of timber frames overhead: the warehouse at Halvorsen's Boat Yard in Putney stands empty now, stripped back to its industrial bones. Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty Ltd built more than 1,000 vessels here across four decades, including wartime Fairmile motor launches and Gretel, Australia's first America's Cup challenger. Part of the Halvorsen's Boat Yard series.