Kill Floor

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The kill floor at Blayney Abattoir, concrete divided into shallow bays and drainage channels. Steel columns rise from the slab. Overhead, a network of black rail gantries and hooks runs the full length of the hall. The abattoir operated from 1957 to 1998.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Kill Floor
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-002
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 13s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Blayney, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Blayney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The kill floor at Blayney Abattoir. The concrete slab is divided into shallow bays and drainage channels, the surface stained from decades of working use. Steel columns rise from the slab to the structural framing above. Overhead, a network of black rail gantries and hooks runs the full length of the hall. The lighting from above is gone; daylight from the side openings falls across the floor in flat panels.

Blayney Abattoir operated from 1957 to 1998. The kill floor was the working centre of the plant, with the species-specific chains processing sheep, cattle and pigs through each stage. Peak daily throughput across the three species was around 5,500 sheep, 350 cattle and 400 pigs. The plant closed in March 1998 under ANZCO Foods, with the workforce reducing from around 1,600 at peak to about 100 in the weeks before shutdown.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel columns rise from a concrete floor divided into shallow bays and drainage channels. Overhead, a network of black rail gantries and hooks runs the full length of the hall. The walls are clad in pale corrugated sheeting, marked with graffiti near the far end. A single opening throws flat light across the wet concrete. Bolt stumps and anchor points dot the floor where worker platforms stood. The air in here would smell of damp cement and rust.

Brett Patman

The series

Blayney Abattoir

2016 · 25 photographs

At peak the Blayney Abattoir employed about 1,600 people, one of the largest workforces in Central West New South Wales. The site had been a butter factory and freezing works from at least 1900, converted to an abattoir in 1957. ANZCO Foods, the New Zealand owner since 1996, announced closure in March 1998 with about 600 workers given a week's pay.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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