Electrical Control Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs the third floor, the electrical control room level. Jagged shards of glass remain in the frames of the large broken windows lining the left side. Checkered floor tiles lie buried under debris and broken glass, and a yellow metal railing stands near the far end. The cable termination area occupied the level below, with the battery room on the ground floor of the same section.

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In situ

Electrical Control Room at Wangi Power Station, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Electrical Control Room at Wangi Power Station, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Electrical Control Room at Wangi Power Station, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Electrical Control Room
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-027
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/5 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

A long corridor runs the third floor at Wangi Power Station, the electrical control room level. Jagged shards of glass remain in the frames of the large broken windows lining the left side. Checkered floor tiles lie buried under debris and broken glass, and a yellow metal railing stands near the far end. Graffiti marks the walls. The cable termination area occupied the level below, with the battery room on the ground floor of the same section.

Power stations like Wangi Power Station were managed from levels like this one, with the electrical control room on the third floor, the cable termination area below it and the battery room on the ground floor of the same section. The station closed in 1986 and was decommissioned with the rest of the plant. What is left on this level is the corridor, the broken glass and the tiles underneath it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Inside Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs the third floor, the electrical control room level.

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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