Cold Storage

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside Blayney Abattoir's abandoned cold storage, industrial hooks hang from the ceiling. A frosted door stands ajar, revealing the cavernous, silent interior. Decay marks the concrete floor.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Cold Storage
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-004
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 15s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
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 cold storage at Blayney Abattoir. The room is concrete-floored and concrete-walled, fitted with insulated cladding on the upper walls and ceiling. Industrial meat hooks hang from a network of overhead rails that runs the full length of the room. A frosted-glass door stands ajar at the entrance. The cold storage held processed sides of meat through the chilling and packing stages of the plant.

Blayney Abattoir operated from 1957 to 1998 as a sheep, cattle and pig processing plant in Central West NSW. Cold stores like this one held the day's processed meat between the kill floors and the loading yard. The plant ran at peak around 5,500 sheep, 350 cattle and 400 pigs a day across three species-specific floors. ANZCO Foods closed the plant in March 1998 citing stock shortage.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel rails run in parallel lines across the ceiling, fixed to a grid of metal cross-members. The tracks converge toward a pair of sealed doors at the far end, where light spills through gaps and spreads across the concrete floor. Staining marks the walls on both sides. Debris sits scattered in the half-dark. The air in here would be cool and close, carrying the faint mineral smell of old concrete.

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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