A Electrical Workshop

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The A Station electrical workshop at Wangi Power Station. A test panel to the left; parquetry flooring, an unusual choice for an industrial space, runs throughout the building. The station was officially opened in 1958 and equipment was removed between 1995 and 1997.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: A Electrical Workshop
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-001
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The A Electrical Workshop at Wangi Power Station is a long, well-lit room with a parquetry timber floor, large industrial workbenches along one side, and equipment racks on the other. The parquetry floor is the most distinctive feature of the room: pieces of hardwood arranged in a herringbone pattern, polished and worn smooth from decades of foot traffic. The benches are fitted with vices, drill presses, and small lathes for electrical fitting work. Electrical components hang on a peg-board against the back wall. The lighting overhead is fluorescent, mostly dead. The room is quiet, the way workshops only get when no work has been done in them for a long time.

Power stations of Wangi's era were built with permanent on-site workshops to handle electrical fitting and repair work for the entire plant. The A Workshop was one of two electrical workshops at Wangi, dealing with low-voltage work, motor rewinding, and instrumentation. Parquetry flooring was unusual but not unheard of in workshops of this kind: timber was less hard on a worker's back across an eight-hour shift than concrete or steel grating. The floor in this photograph has been here since the plant opened in 1958. It outlasted the equipment that was originally racked on it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The electrical workshop remains surprisingly intact, with an old test panel still visible to the left. More striking, however, is the parquetry flooring - an unusual choice for an industrial setting like this.

Brett Patman

The series

Wangi Power Station

51 photographs

About a thousand men built Wangi Power Station, on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. They were Hunter Valley locals and post-war Italian migrants, many living in a tent city on the lakeshore through the build. By 1957 they'd put up the main building, 228 metres long and eleven storeys high in triple-brick over a riveted steel frame, with three 76-metre concrete chimneys behind it.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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