Public Weigh Bridge
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D750
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/5.0 · 1/640 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A public weigh bridge, long disused, shows its weathered concrete and rusted mechanism. It stands as a silent relic of past commerce, once measuring goods transported along vital trade routes.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Public Weigh Bridge
- Series
- Parramatta Road
- Catalogue
- PRO-014
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 4 September 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D750
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/5.0
- Shutter
- 1/640 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
78 Parramatta Road, Lidcombe. A public weigh-bridge site sits behind pale blue fencing and lattice metalwork. Shipping containers stacked two high carry signage for a plastics supplier. A steel lattice tower rises above the low roofline. The concrete road surface is cracked and patched, lane markings worn to faint traces. Flat midday light. A figure walks past the gate carrying a bag. Nobody stops.
Brett Patman
The series
Parramatta Road
Parramatta Road follows a much older route, used for thousands of years by the Wangal, Wallumedegal, Burramattagal, and Cadigal peoples before colonial adoption around 1789 to 1791. Today it is one of Sydney's main thoroughfares: 23 km of heavy traffic, with used car dealers at the Parramatta end ("Auto Alley") and a mix of historic shopfronts, new apartment blocks, and WestConnex demolition at the eastern end. The series moves between streetscape and individual buildings - 107 Parramatta Road in Annandale (an 1890s Victorian Filigree shopfront with original living quarters above accessible only by ladder), the Marco Polo Motel at Summer Hill, the Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, Mario's Meat Market, and shopfronts whose ground floors have been busy for a century while the rooms above have been empty for fifty years.
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