Stairs Down hotel Staircase at Kaga

Staircase at Kaga

Stacks of graph paper rolls sit gathering dust inside West Ryde Pumping Station

The school operated from its Rydalmere campus from 1957 until closure in 2009

used for tracing radio beacon signals from coastal stations

The brickworks operated under several owners from 1884

Stairs Down hotel Staircase at KagaConcrete stairs descend into the quarry void at Hornsby Quarry, water pooling at the base and throwing light back up the shaft. This infrastructure provided working access within a dolerite quarry that supplied blue metal for northern Sydney's roads from around 1905 until 2002. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.