Mechanical Workshop

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The on site fitters workshop at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, the mechanical workshop where running repairs and fabrication for the plant were carried out. It was registered as part of the significant fabric of the complex, among its ancillary buildings rather than on the press or boiler floors.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Mechanical Workshop
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-069
Process: Giclée
Captured: 15 April 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.8s 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

This is the on site fitters workshop at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, the mechanical workshop where running repairs and fabrication for the plant were carried out. The room reads as a working trades space, fitted out for metalwork and the maintenance of plant components rather than for production.

The mechanical workshops were registered as part of the significant fabric of the complex, among its ancillary buildings rather than on the press or boiler floors. Across the site, Wright Anderson of England supplied the generator houses, part of a wider British engineering supply chain that brought equipment and people to the Latrobe Valley. About 250 single British men came to Australia as assisted migrants from 1951 to erect that equipment, and the operational workforce was drawn largely from Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries, many settling permanently in the valley. Brett photographed the fitters workshop on 15 April 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The mechanical workshop is in better shape than most of the plant. The machine tools are still here, green paint mostly intact. A fitter would walk in and know immediately what everything does.

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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