Boiler House

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A long grated walkway through the boiler house at the Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, entered past a red 'Asbestos' warning stencilled on a riveted metal wall. Gridded windows at the far end throw light down the corroded floor grating. The house held the brown-coal water tube boilers of the complex.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-009
Process: Giclée
Captured: 30 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/5 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

A red 'Asbestos' warning, stencilled in large block letters, marks the riveted metal wall at the entrance to a long grated walkway inside the Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories. Two horizontal rows of rivets run across the lower panels of the left wall, and 3 small recessed openings break the surface at regular intervals. A yellow pipe angles across the upper right of the frame. At the far end, bright gridded windows throw a grid of light down the length of the floor grating. The steel is corroded and the walkway runs straight into shadow before the windows.

The walkway runs through the boiler house, which 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 house walkway on 30 March 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A steel mesh walkway runs between concrete-clad boiler casings and a lattice of pipes, gantries, and louvred panels. Red stencilled letters on the left wall read "MAY CONTAIN ASBESTOS." Light falls through tall industrial windows at the far end, catching rust on the handrails and dust suspended in the air. The scale is vertical and dense. Every surface is metal or poured concrete.

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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