Blower

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 50mm · f/9.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A motorised industrial blower stands inside Bradmill, Yarraville, likely fed air to the boilers when the plant was running. Heavy metal casing and ducting run through the boiler house.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Blower
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-008
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 8s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 50 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A motorised industrial blower stands in the boiler house at Bradmill, Yarraville. The blower is heavy steel construction, casing bolted to a structural frame, with ducting running into and out of the housing at right angles. The drive motor sits on the same frame, coupled to the impeller shaft. The unit likely fed air to the boilers when the plant was running. The casing is darkened with the accumulated dust of years of disuse.

The Bradmill boiler house powered the spinning and weaving operations that ran across the Yarraville site. Bradmill Industries Ltd was the largest textile manufacturer in Australia at its 1970s peak, with fifteen sites across NSW, Victoria and Queensland and approximately 7,000 employees. The Yarraville site was using 40,000 bales of cotton a year and was the third-largest water user in the state of Victoria. The plant was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s and shuttered around 2002.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Motorised blower probably for feeding air to the boilers

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

2011 · 27 photographs

The Bradford family founded Bradford Cotton Mills in Sydney in 1927. The company expanded into Victoria in 1940, began producing denim in 1945, and grew into Bradmill Industries Ltd. The Yarraville factory on Francis Street was the country's only indigo denim mill.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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