Boiler House Top

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The upper interior of Wangi Power Station's boiler house is bathed in light. Steel girders and concrete platforms ascend, revealing the vast scale of this industrial ruin as nature reclaims the structure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House Top
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-014
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.6s 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 top of the Wangi Power Station boiler house, photographed from the highest accessible working level, looks down across the structural framing of the building toward the boiler bay below. The roof structure carries the heavy steel trusses that span the bay, with corrugated cladding above them and clerestory openings at the ridge. Light comes down through the clerestory in shafts. The hot-air ducting from the upper part of the boilers has been removed for salvage; the structural mounting brackets remain. The view across the building takes in the steel framing's full geometry from above, including the catwalk system and the bulkhead between the boiler house and the turbine hall.

The boiler-house top was the working level for the upper-drum access on the A Station boilers and for the feed and instrumentation lines that ran across the top of the firing levels. Operators came up here for routine inspection across every shift. The level was sized so that the largest piece of plant maintenance could be carried out from above without taking the boiler out of service. After the plant closed at the end of 1986 and the equipment came out between 1995 and 1997, the boiler-house top has been used only by the documentation teams that have visited the building.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The boiler house stretches deep into the frame, viewed from bunker level looking down the full length of the building. Concrete columns rise in rows on both sides. Steel-framed glass walls line each flank, flooding the stripped interior with flat grey light. The machinery is gone. What remains are bolt holes, mounting plates, and rectangular openings cut into the concrete floors where coal hoppers and feed chutes once dropped fuel to the furnaces below. Graffiti marks the lower walls. Dust and grit cover every surface.

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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