Broken plasterboard has mounded on the right side of this stripped dressing room. Above, 2 rectangular fluorescent light frames hang loose from exposed wooden joists, and corrugated iron shows through the gaps where ceiling panels have pulled away. Coiled black cables trail across the floor. Graffiti runs along the lower partition wall, where a hose reel stays fixed.
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The amenities building at the ATL Building in Meadowbank was a separate structure from the main factory. Where the factory housed the toolroom, the warehouse, and the offices, this building held the facilities for the workforce: dressing rooms, communal showers, and a canteen. Broken plasterboard has mounded on the right side of this stripped dressing room. Above, two rectangular fluorescent light frames hang loose from exposed wooden joists, and corrugated iron shows through the gaps where ceiling panels have pulled away. Coiled black cables trail across the floor, and graffiti runs along the lower partition wall, where a hose reel stays fixed. Automatic Totalisators Limited moved its manufacturing operations to the purpose-built Meadowbank site in 1947, having previously operated from premises near Central Station. The land had been purchased from a family called Faraday; the road serving the site was created as part of the factory development and did not exist beforehand. The main building housed the factory floor, warehouse, and offices. The amenities building alongside it was built to the same era, serving the men and women who manufactured precision totalisator systems for export to racecourses across 29 countries. ATL's operations were acquired by the Smorgan group in 1980, and subsequently by AWA around 1988. Through the 1990s and 2000s, the factory buildings were repurposed as a multi-tenant facility: a gym, a church, office space, and a dance school all occupied the site at various points. The dressing rooms that had once served a precision manufacturing workforce gradually emptied and were left behind. The ATL Building was demolished around 2016 as part of the Shepherds Bay Urban Renewal Project. Despite being listed as a locally significant heritage item under Ryde LEP No 105 in 2003, the building was approved in principle for demolition under the Shepherds Bay Concept Plan, approved by the Planning Assessment Commission on 6 March 2013. The site was subsequently redeveloped for residential apartments. This photograph, made in 2015, records the dressing room as it stood in its final years.
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Broken plasterboard has mounded on the right side of this stripped dressing room.
Brett Patman
The series
ATL Building
14
photographs
The ATL Building was the factory and offices of Automatic Totalisators Limited on Nancarrow Avenue at Meadowbank in Sydney, built in 1947 on land fronting the Parramatta River. The company made totalisator equipment for racecourse betting there, and the building served as its factory from 1947 until the 1970s. Ryde Local Environmental Plan No 105 listed it as a local heritage item in 2003, and the Sydney East Joint Regional Planning Panel approved its demolition in December 2015.
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