Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.
Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.

Top Of The Works

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 1/250 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A concrete kiln building runs the length of the frame at Kandos Cement Works. A conveyor drops at an angle toward the yard. Cylindrical silos rise in the background. Weeds push through cracked pavement below.

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Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.Top Of The Works at Kandos Cement Works, concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Top Of The Works
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-039
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/250 s
ISO
100
Focal length
21 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

From the top of the Kandos Cement Works the plant runs away in long parallel lines: the kiln building, the preheater tower, the cement-mill bays, and the silos, all stitched together by conveyor bridges. The roofs are corrugated iron, weathered to a darker grey than the cladding on the walls. The preheater stack rises clear of the surrounding structures, its concrete shaft streaked where rainwater has run down the outside. To the south, the township of Kandos sits below the works on a gentle slope, its grid of streets visible between the trees. The sandstone hills rise on the far side. From this height the scale of the plant against the town is plain.

Kandos was a town built for its cement works. The NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company registered in May 1913, purchased 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior in August of that year, and laid out the town alongside the plant from 1915. The streets were named for the company's directors: Angus, Buchanan, White, Rodgers, Jaques. In 1920, Kandos became the first place in Australia with concrete electricity poles. Cement production began in August 1916 and continued for 95 years until the plant closed in September 2011. The view across the works from up here is one of the few angles where the relationship between the plant and the town it built is fully legible.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Concrete walls rise several storeys on the left, stained dark with mineral residue. Opposite, steel lattice framing supports cylindrical silos and angled conveyors that climb toward the blending towers in the background. Sunlight falls hard across the open corridor between structures. Weeds push through cracks in the concrete floor. The air here would taste of chalk dust and hot metal.

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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