Boiler House Walkway

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A walkway in the boiler house at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, with metal grating running its length between a riveted steel structure on the left and yellow safety railings on the right. Insulated pipes and beams pack the ceiling and a grid of windows lights the far end. The walkway gave access to the brown coal boiler plant.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House Walkway
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-010
Process: Giclée
Captured: 30 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2.5s 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

Metal grating extends the full length of the walkway in the boiler house at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, flanked on the left by a riveted steel structure with diagonal bracing marked by red graffiti, and bounded on the right by yellow safety railings. Overhead, a dense network of insulated pipes and structural beams runs the length of the corridor. A grid of large windows at the far end draws in broad daylight. The grating runs straight ahead, the steel close on the left, the pipes packed tight above the head.

The boiler plant served by this walkway used water tube boilers adapted specifically for burning brown coal, registered by the Victorian Heritage Register as a rare survivor of its class. The boilers, ash handling, steel chimneys and the building were supplied by Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London under the 1950 contract. Walkways like this gave access to the insulated pipe runs and the riveted boiler structure alongside. 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 plant before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The grating on the walkway floor lets you see straight down into whatever's below. On a power station in full operation, that was deliberately not a view you lingered over.

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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