Mezzanine at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a small platform inside the mill building.

01 Mungo Scott Flour MillSummer Hill2014

ISO 1001/30f/8.057mm

Series · 13 prints

Mungo Scott Flour Mill

Photographed 2014
Frames 13
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Redeveloped as mixed-use precinct
Years 1922 to 2009
Specs Five-storey mill building · Load-bearing brick with timber post-and-beam · Federation Industrial
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Mungo Scott Flour Mill went up at Summer Hill around 1921 and began operating in June 1922, replacing the company's earlier mill on Sussex Street in the city. The site sat on the goods rail line between Wardell Road and Darling Harbour. A fire in 1927, attributed to sparks from passing trains igniting stored flour, did serious damage. Goodman Fielder later put up the concrete silos that mark the site from a distance. Allied Mills ran the operation until 2009. The 2.5-hectare site was vacant for almost a decade before EG Funds Management and Daiwa House Australia turned it into the Flour Mill mixed-use precinct, designed by Hassell -- 360 apartments and townhouses across 11 buildings, with the heritage mill structures and silos retained at the centre.

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.

Mezzanine at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a small platform inside the mill building.
Mezzanine
Bagging Room at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a blue moulded-plastic chair sits alone on a concrete floor thick with grit and dust.
Bagging Room
Blower Room at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a blower and dust extraction fan in the top of the main mill building.
Blower Room
Workshop at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, this looked to be a workshop/storage area.
Workshop
Cooling Tower Supports at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, possibly supporting a cooling tower structure.
Cooling Tower Supports
Window at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a dusty window inside the flour mill.
Window
Mill Floor One at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, one of the mill floors once used as part of the flour making process, undergoing.
Mill Floor One
Sewing Machine at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a left over flour bagging machine.
Sewing Machine
Pylons at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, two rows of massive wooden pylons within the mill building with the diagonally laid.
Pylons
Mill Window at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, looking out towards Lewisham.
Mill Window
Screw Feeder at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a heavy screw auger hangs suspended from a chain hoist, lifted clear of its trough.
Screw Feeder
Windows at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a row of windows on one of the mill floors.
Windows
Blower at Mungo Scott Flour Mill, used either as part of processing the grain into flour or dust control.
Blower
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.

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Lead time

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

05 FIELD NOTE

From the field

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06 PRESS

In the press

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.

I'm often contacted by people who used to frequent the places I photographed. They share stories that enter the collections as additions or corrections. Sometimes they send their own photos from the same viewpoints, taken decades earlier.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

One day I stopped at a vast abandoned factory I passed on my way home from work. There was a long section of fence missing. I wandered in, camera in hand, and that moment was the unofficial beginning of Lost Collective.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

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