Screw Feeder
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Settings
- 36mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Inside the Mungo Scott Flour Mill, a substantial screw feeder stands silent. Rusting metal and caked flour dust cling to its industrial form. This essential machinery once moved grain, now it remains fixed in time.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Screw Feeder
- Series
- Mungo Scott Flour Mill
- Catalogue
- MSF-008
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 11 May 2014
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 4s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 36 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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A heavy screw auger hangs suspended from a chain hoist, lifted clear of its trough housing. The helical flights are caked in residue. Grey steel ductwork branches overhead in tight angles, running the full depth of the processing floor. Red DANGER signage marks a confined space entry point on a cylindrical vessel to the right. Louvred panels, bearing housings, flat belt drives. Everything coated in fine dust. The air in here would taste of grain and metal.
Brett Patman
The series
Mungo Scott Flour Mill
Mungo Scott Flour Mill went up at Summer Hill around 1921 and began operating in June 1922, replacing the company's earlier mill on Sussex Street in the city. The site sat on the goods rail line between Wardell Road and Darling Harbour. A fire in 1927, attributed to sparks from passing trains igniting stored flour, did serious damage. Goodman Fielder later put up the concrete silos that mark the site from a distance. Allied Mills ran the operation until 2009. The 2.5-hectare site was vacant for almost a decade before EG Funds Management and Daiwa House Australia turned it into the Flour Mill mixed-use precinct, designed by Hassell -- 360 apartments and townhouses across 11 buildings, with the heritage mill structures and silos retained at the centre.
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