Meters

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 48mm · f/6.3 · 1/50 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Shattered glass from a smashed housing above coats the surface of a metering panel, the fragments settling across gauges and corroded metal fittings. Three vertical dials occupy the left side of the panel, and a row of five coloured push buttons, alternating red and green, lines the wall plate to the right. Behind it, graffiti-marked machinery fills the background of what was once the control room at Bradmill, Yarraville.

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In situ

Meters at Bradmill Denim, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Meters at Bradmill Denim, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Meters at Bradmill Denim, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Meters
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-018
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter: 1/50 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 48 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

The steel control panel at the edge of the boiler floor carried the instrumentation for the boiler operation: push buttons for start and stop sequencing, analogue gauges monitoring pressure and temperature, the dial housings that translated live process conditions into a readable format at the operator's position. Bradmill's boiler plant ran at industrial scale to generate the steam that drove production across the mill. By March 2012 the push buttons were still socketed, the gauge faces still legible beneath their coating of grime, the yellow lever arms behind the panel still attached to the machinery they once controlled.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A steel control panel stands at the edge of the boiler floor. Coloured push buttons line its face, red and green, still socketed. Broken glass litters the console top. Analogue metres and dial gauges mount the wall behind, their circular housings coated in grime. Beyond the panel, heavy industrial machinery recedes into shadow. Yellow-painted lever arms and cast-iron fittings sit thick with rust. The ground is loose debris and soot.

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

52 photographs

The former Davies Coop / Bradmill factory, Yarraville, was a textile works on Francis Street in Melbourne's western suburbs, built as the dyeing and finishing plant of the cotton spinner Davies Coop & Co. Ltd. It followed a 1952 agreement with the Bradford Dyers' Association of England and was in production by the middle of 1955. Bradmill Industries bid for Davies Coop in 1969 and owned it outright by 1973. The steel-framed, red brick boiler house is the building the heritage listing names as a large and dominant local landmark.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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