Boiler House Basement 2

A Danger confined space sign marks a large vertical structure on the left of a long industrial corridor in the boiler house basement at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories. Parallel tracks run the length of the concrete floor toward a bright rectangular opening at the far end. Angled metal ducts descend from the ceiling on the right. A skylight overhead breaks the gloom and casts hard shadows across the machinery and floor below. The corridor runs long and straight, the tracks set into the concrete, the light dropping in from above.

This level sat beneath the water tube boilers that burned brown coal at the complex, plant the Victorian Heritage Register cites as a rare survivor of its class. The boilers, ash handling, steel chimneys and building were supplied by Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London under the 1950 contract. Tracks and ducts at this level moved material and air for the boilers running overhead. The last boiler and turbine were taken off on 8 September 2014. Brett photographed the boiler house basement on 15 April 2017, in the closed plant before the demolition program began.