Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.
Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.

Bag Loading Area

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The bag loading area at Kandos Cement Works. Before direct rail loading, cement was funnelled into sacks here, filled and stacked by workers for dispatch. Cement Australia closed the plant in September 2011.

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Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.Bag Loading Area at Kandos Cement Works, the bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Bag Loading Area
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-001
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/13 s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Kandos, 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

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The bag loading area at Kandos Cement Works is a concrete platform at one end of the cement silo block, where finished cement was bagged and stacked for despatch by road or rail. A row of overhead chutes hangs above the platform, each one fitted with a bag-filling nozzle and a clamping arm that held the bag against the chute while it filled. A weighing scale built into the platform sat below each bagging position, calibrated to the bag weights in use. Empty paper-bag stacks and a few unfilled bags are still on the platform. The roof is corrugated iron, supported on lattice steel trusses. A loading dock runs along one side, with truck access at one end and a rail siding alongside the other.

Bagged cement was Kandos's product for builders, hardware stores, and small contractors across central NSW and Sydney. Bulk cement went out by rail or tanker for major construction work, but the bagging line ran continuously alongside the bulk despatch for the full operational life of the plant. Kandos opened in August 1916 and closed in September 2011. The 95-year run included supplying the cement for the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1928 and 1932. The bag loading platform has not loaded a bag since the plant closed.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The bag loading hall at Kandos Cement Works opens wide under a corrugated iron roof held by steel trusses. Concrete columns rise in rows, stained dark with mineral residue. The floor is slick, pooled with groundwater that traces black veins across cracked concrete. A red door and red electrical panel sit against a cinder block wall to the right. Metal chutes and hoppers hang overhead. Industrial pendant lights dangle from the roof structure, unlit. The air here smells of wet calcium and cold steel.

Brett Patman

Kandos Cement Works

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM KANDOS CEMENT WORKS

39 other prints in this series

All prints
Number Six Raw Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a ball mill sits heavy in the half-light, its riveted steel drum tilted toward.
Number Six Raw Mill $100.00
Clinker Shed at Kandos Cement Works, steel trusses span the full width of the shed, supported by heavy columns streaked.
Clinker Shed $100.00
Cyclonic Separator at Kandos Cement Works, steel mesh grating covers the floor, open to the darkness below.
Cyclonic Separator $100.00
Number Six Ball Mill Drive at Kandos Cement Works, the motor and gearbox that once drove the ball mill, now sitting.
Number Six Ball Mill Drive $100.00
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