Plant Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 36mm · f/16.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dormant machinery and rusted pipes dominate the plant room at the Bradmill Denim factory. Dust layers every surface, while the silence speaks of its industrial past.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Plant Room
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/16.0
Shutter: 1.3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 36 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 plant room at Bradmill, Yarraville. Dormant machinery fills the space: vessels, pumps, pipework, control panels arranged in a working layout that no longer functions. Rusted pipes cross the upper walls and ceiling. Dust covers every surface. The room is silent. The room was one of several plant rooms supporting the cotton processing across the Yarraville site.

Bradmill at Yarraville ran cotton spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing across multiple connected buildings: spinning mill, weaving sheds, dye house, boiler house, and ancillary plant. Bradmill Industries Ltd was the largest textile manufacturer in Australia at its 1970s peak. The Yarraville site was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s under cheap-import pressure and shuttered around 2002. The site has since been acquired by Frasers Property Australia and Irongate for redevelopment.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A plant room that has more or less been stripped of all its old machinery.

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

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