Boiler 3

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An interior of the boiler house at the Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, with grey wall panels stencilled '3BLR', 'SBLR' and 'SW. Feeder' among corroded pipework and yellow safety railings stepping across platform levels on the left. A long brick wall with tall grimed windows runs to the right, and the house held brown-coal water tube boilers.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler 3
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-007
Process: Giclée
Captured: 30 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.8s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Morwell, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Stencilled codes '3BLR', 'SBLR' and 'SW. Feeder' mark the grey metal wall panels inside the boiler house at the Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, identifying individual systems across a space thick with corroded pipework and conduit. Yellow safety railings step across multiple platform levels on the left, while the numbers '18 16 15' run along a lower wall section. To the right, a long brick wall punctuated by tall, grime-coated windows stretches into the distance. The corroded steel and aged masonry together sharpen the scale of the interior.

The boiler house held water tube boilers specifically adapted for burning brown coal, registered by the Victorian Heritage Register as rare survivors of their class. The boiler plant, ash handling, steel chimneys and building were supplied by Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London under the 1950 contract. The complex produced electricity from December 1958 until the last boiler and turbine were taken off on 8 September 2014. Brett photographed the Boiler 3 area on 30 March 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Yellow safety railings grid the space across multiple levels, steel grating underfoot, pipes running the full length of the narrow service corridor. The boiler's grey cladding rises several storeys on the left, riveted panels streaked with rust. Brickwork along the right wall is stained dark with decades of coal dust and moisture. Light enters through high windows and catches the metal surfaces. A stencilled label near the lower left reads "S.W. Feeder."

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

1949-2014 · 79 photographs

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria built Morwell as the centrepiece of its postwar plan to sever Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Construction ran from 1949 to 1959; electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station, registered on the Victorian Heritage Register as H2377 on 1 March 2018.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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