Launder Yard

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The launder yard along the brick facade of the 'C' and 'D' Briquette Factories at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, with rows of broken windows, a rusted cyclone separator in the mid-ground and a red fire hose reel on the wall.

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Launder Yard at Morwell Power Station, black-framed print (in-situ_f361ed1b-22a6-492c-a33f-ffee74662ce5).

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Launder Yard
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-005
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 15s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

The launder yard stretches along the brick facade of the 'C' and 'D' Briquette Factories at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, the building's full length visible across a cracked concrete forecourt. Broken windows run in rows across the multi-storey elevation. A large rusted cyclone separator occupies the mid-ground, standing clear of the wall. A red fire hose reel sits mounted to the brickwork at the left end of the facade. The yard reads as a long open run of pavement against the tall factory front, the plant's scale set out across the frame.

The C and D factories stand behind this yard. The briquetting presses inside were supplied by Maschinenfabrik Buckau R. Wolf A.G. of Germany under the 1950 contract for two factories rated at 2,100 tons per day. A Boxing Day fire in 2003 destroyed the coal cross-over conveyor feeding the B, C and D plants, after which only A plant continued and the complex ran at a fraction of its intended capacity. The factories produced their first commercial briquettes in December 1959. Brett photographed the launder yard on 29 March 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Cream brick buildings rise several storeys high across a cracked concrete yard. Windows are broken out in rows along the left facade. A rusted cyclone dust collector and its feed chute stand between the structures, oxidised to a deep brown. Weeds push through fractured asphalt. The yard is empty, wide open, wind-scoured. Cloud streaks across the sky above the roofline.

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

79 photographs

Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories was a brown coal power station and briquette works at Morwell in the Latrobe Valley, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria from 1949 and run from 1958 to 2014. It was the centrepiece of the state's postwar plan to reduce Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. The station had eight Mitchell Engineering boilers and five generating sets, 170 MW in all, with coal conveyed in from the west and split between the power station and the two briquette factories.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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