Washing Area

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The washing area at Blayney Abattoir. Concrete floors slope toward drains. Workers cleaned gumboots and knife kits here to comply with the plant's hygiene and inspection standards. The abattoir operated from 1957 and employed up to 1,600 people before ANZCO Foods closed it in 1998.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Washing Area
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-024
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/2 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 washing area at Blayney Abattoir. The concrete floor slopes toward drains running along the centre of the room. Workers cleaned gumboots and knife kits here at shift change to comply with the plant's hygiene and inspection standards. The walls are tiled to dado height and rendered above, the tiles cracked across patches of damp. The fittings of the wash stations have been stripped; the floor and drainage layout remain.

Blayney Abattoir operated from 1957 to 1998, processing sheep, cattle and pigs across three species-specific floors. At peak operation the plant employed around 1,600 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Central West of NSW. The closure in March 1998 was the end of an industrial use of the site that had run for 41 years; the broader site had been industrially occupied since the butter factory and freezing works of around 1900.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A corridor opens into a wider room where the floor sits dark and bare. Vertical timber panelling lines the left wall, its surface stained grey with moisture damage. Fluorescent fittings hang from a low ceiling, their tubes gone. Fallen strips of material and tangled cable litter the ground. To the right, a steel grated rail runs along a raised concrete kerb. Lengths of pipe rest against it. Green signage still clings to the far wall, unreadable from here.

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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