Maze

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 200mm · f/8.0 · 1/80 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The south transfer station at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, seen from behind the wet section, its corrugated iron facade carrying gridded windows and a diagonal enclosed walkway with broken panes. The raw coal bunker rises behind it. The transfer station redirected material flow from the wet section toward the main buildings, serving both the factory and the power station.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Maze
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-068
Process: Giclée
Captured: 15 April 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/80 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 200 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

This view at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories looks south from behind the wet section toward the south transfer station. Its corrugated iron facade is punctuated by large gridded windows and a diagonal enclosed walkway, several of its panes broken. The raw coal bunker rises above the roofline behind it. Exposed brickwork shows on the right, and patches of dry grass mark the concrete base. The structure reads as a knot of overlapping volumes, the walkway cutting across the facade and the bunker standing over everything.

The transfer station served both the briquette factory and the power station. Its sole function was to redirect material flow from the wet section toward the main buildings. Coal was conveyed from the west into the site and distributed to either the power station or the briquette factories, with output leaving from the eastern side. The briquette factories drew on Yallourn coal railed across the interconnecting line, because Morwell brown coal proved unsuitable for briquetting. Brett photographed the south transfer station on 15 April 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Cream brick and corrugated iron press tight against each other. A concrete staircase cuts diagonally across the left frame, its steel balustrade streaked with grime. Behind the lower buildings, the turbine hall rises several storeys, its façade clad in vertical sheeting stained grey and rust-brown. Rows of steel-framed windows sit dark and broken. Dry grass pushes through the gutterline where two roofs meet.

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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