Number 10 Briquette Factory

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The top floor precipitator level at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, a narrow grated walkway ending at a yellow door, with a star locked hatch in the left wall and grimy multi pane windows on the right. At this level, electronic precipitators collected dust from the coal drying process, drawing around 8 tonnes an hour.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Number 10 Briquette Factory
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-017
Process: Giclée
Captured: 30 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/8 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

The top floor precipitator level at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories runs the length of a narrow grated walkway, ending at a distant yellow door. A square hatch with a star shaped locking mechanism sits in the left wall panel, rust streaks marking the steel below it. Grimy multi pane windows line the right side, the exterior structure of the plant visible through the glass. The walkway is tight and linear, the daylight coming sideways through the dirty glazing along its full length.

At this level, electronic precipitators collected dust from the coal drying process, drawing around 8 tonnes an hour. The complex carried a minimum of four steel chimneys, supplied along with the boiler plant, ash handling and building under the Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London contract of 1950, and progressively demolished in the 2018 to 2020 program. Dust collection at this level was part of handling the brown coal that fed the briquette presses below. Brett photographed the precipitator level on 30 March 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The high-level corridor in Number 10 Briquette Factory ran above the press floor. The access hatches in the wall are sized for equipment, not people. Getting anything in or out required planning.

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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