Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.
Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.

Divider

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1.6s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A concrete path runs the full length between 'B' and 'C' factories at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, the only two buildings on the site fitted with lifts. A red brick outbuilding marked 'B' sits at the base of the left building and a slender steel chimney rises above the right, with the site fire station closing the far end of the corridor.

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Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.Divider at Morwell Power Station, two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Divider
Series
Morwell Power Station
Catalogue
MPS-004
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 March 2017
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1.6s 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 concrete path runs the full length between 'B' factory on the right and 'C' factory on the left at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, the two buildings that were the only ones on the site to feature lifts, the others having steps only. A small red brick outbuilding with a white 'B' painted on its face marks the base of the left building, and a slender chimney rises above the right. The site fire station sits at the far end of the corridor, with workshop additions visible at intervals between the main structures.

The slender chimney above 'B' factory was one of a minimum of four steel chimneys on the site, supplied under the Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London contract of 1950, which also covered the boiler plant, ash handling and the building. The chimneys were demolished progressively through the 2018 to 2020 program. The complex had been built between 1949 and 1959, with electricity production commencing in December 1958 and first commercial briquettes in December 1959. Brett photographed the path between the factories on 29 March 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two multi-storey brick buildings stand parallel, forming a wide concrete corridor that runs deep into the complex. Steel-framed windows line every level, dozens of panes per floor. A single chimney stack rises between the structures at the far end. Weeds push through expansion joints in the pavement. Low brick annexes sit at the base of each building. The concrete is pale, cracked, stained grey. Overcast sky presses down heavy and cold.

Brett Patman

Morwell Power Station

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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07 MORE FROM MORWELL POWER STATION

78 other prints in this series

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Rising Conveyor at Morwell Power Station, the enclosed conveyor carried coal from the storage bunker up to the boiler house.
Rising Conveyor $100.00
Generator at Morwell Power Station, the blade rings inside have the kind of precision that heavy industry does better than.
Generator $100.00
Turbine Floor 3 at Morwell Power Station, a turbine control panel lines the left wall, its rows of analogue gauges.
Turbine Floor 3 $100.00
Turbine Hall Control Room Entrance at Morwell Power Station, the control room sat above the turbine hall floor at one end.
Turbine Hall Control Room Entrance $100.00
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