Basement at Abandoned Bakery, looking out towards the rear exit of the basement of the building.

01 Abandoned Bakery (ABBCO Bakery)Leichhardt2015

ISO 1001sf/8.031mm

Series · 14 prints

Abandoned Bakery (ABBCO Bakery)

Photographed 2015
Frames 14
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Demolished post-2015
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

ABBCO Bakery ran at 7 Darley Road, Leichhardt, on the inner-west fringe of Sydney. The site was on the original 1811 Macquarie Gift land grant to Ensign Hugh Piper, adjacent to the former Goods Line freight rail corridor between Sydney Yard and Darling Harbour. Built around 1950, the bakery was, by the early 1970s, the largest independent bakery in Australia. Director and part-owner Bill McLeod ran it with his brother and sister, baking 100 types of bread for distribution across Sydney through ABBCO's own 22 retail shops and through wholesale outlets. The site later passed through State Rail and Goodman Fielder ownership and had brief lives as a limousine hire and furniture manufacturer before falling out of use. The Lost Collective photographs were made during its abandoned period. The bakery has since been demolished. A Dan Murphy's now stands on the site.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.

Basement at Abandoned Bakery, looking out towards the rear exit of the basement of the building.
Basement
Reflections at Abandoned Bakery, graffiti reflects in the rainwater pooled on the floor.
Reflections
Mezzanine Back Wall at Abandoned Bakery, from the mezzanine viewing south towards Canada Bay.
Mezzanine Back Wall
Main Floor East at Abandoned Bakery, the main floor of the building facing out towards the loading dock.
Main Floor East
Hallway at Abandoned Bakery, now, most are full of mattresses.
Hallway
Main Floor To Mezzanine at Abandoned Bakery, a staircase leading from the main floor of the building to the mezzanine.
Main Floor To Mezzanine
Hangout at Abandoned Bakery, netflix & Chill.
Hangout
Basement Exit at Abandoned Bakery, concrete steps rise from a debris-covered basement floor toward a narrow doorway.
Basement Exit
Basement Pylons at Abandoned Bakery, a cross view of the basement.
Basement Pylons
Basement to First Floor at Abandoned Bakery, the only way is up.
Basement to First Floor
Main Floor West at Abandoned Bakery, steel portal frames span the full width of the warehouse floor.
Main Floor West
Rear Mezzanine at Abandoned Bakery, the mezzanine level of the main floor shot from the back of the building facing east.
Rear Mezzanine
Squatters Bedroom at Abandoned Bakery, a stained mattress sits flat on the concrete floor, pushed against the back wall.
Squatters Bedroom
Office Mezzanine at Abandoned Bakery, part of the mezzanine that adjoins a small office.
Office Mezzanine
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

Print tiers →

Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

06 PRESS

In the press

Often I'd find myself looking at the machines and architecture and challenging myself to find one single object designed purely for aesthetics. Craftsmanship made way for efficiency in engineering long before I'd even left school.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.

Broadsheet

Brett Patman·2016

lostcollective.com

On the LC archive.

There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

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