Boiler House 2

Provenance

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

The boiler house at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, with a floor stand sign reading 1 BLR directing the eye down the concrete hall toward a far window. A curved pipe fitted with red-handled valves crosses the foreground, and an exposed brick wall carries a red Protection sign. The boilers here were water tube units adapted for brown coal.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House 2
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 April 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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 sign reading 1 BLR stands on a floor stand in the foreground of the boiler house at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, pointing the eye down a bare concrete floor toward a bright rectangular window at the far end of the hall. A large curved pipe crosses the mid-ground, fitted with a run of red-handled valves. The exposed brick wall on the left carries a red Protection sign. Rusted, peeling metal lines the upper right of the space. The light comes from the one window, flat and white, and the rest of the hall holds its shadow.

The boilers here were water tube boilers, adapted specifically for burning brown coal, and the Victorian Heritage Register cites them as rare survivors of their class. The boiler plant, ash handling, steel chimneys and the building itself were supplied by Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London under the 1950 contract. The 1 BLR stand marked the route to the first of these units. Electricity production at the complex commenced in December 1958. Brett photographed the boiler house on 14 April 2017, in the closed plant before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel pipework and heavy valve assemblies line the left wall, bolted to brown brick. A sign marked "BLP" sits on a concrete block at floor level. Paint peels from the upper walls in wide curls, exposing bare render beneath. Overhead, steel trusses and gantries span the full width of the hall. Light enters through a single open doorway at the far end, catching the grit and dust that coats every surface.

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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