Store Roof 2

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light illuminates the corroded corrugated iron roof of a disused store at Wangi Power Station. Decades of weather have warped the metal and faded its paint, revealing the raw texture of its decay.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Store Roof 2
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-040
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.8s 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

A second view of the stores roof at Wangi Power Station shows another section of the failed cladding, where corrugated iron panels have been lifted by wind and rain across several years of disuse. The structural framing underneath, steel trusses and timber purlins, has held in place. The cladding has not. Open sky shows through the gap, with one of the surrounding trees visible beyond. Inside the store, the shelving below the failed roof is rusted out, the contents long gone. Daylight floods through unevenly. The original interior is now exposed to the weather along this run of the building.

Wangi's stores buildings were ancillary structures, separate from the main turbine hall and boiler house, holding spare parts, consumables, and the working tools of the maintenance crews. After the plant closed, no maintenance was carried out on any of the ancillary buildings. The stores roof has been failing progressively across the years since. The 2017 fire on site damaged parts of the complex, separate from this specific roof failure. The Hunter Living Histories project at the University of Newcastle has been documenting the buildings since 2020 with point-cloud and drone surveys.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel columns painted dark teal carry heavy I-beams across a low ceiling. Industrial pendant lights hang at regular intervals, still wired in place. To the right, metal shelving units stand loaded with yellow-labelled parts bins, electrical components, and fittings spilling onto the concrete floor. Cardboard boxes and plastic wrapping lie where they fell. The floor is bare, gritty, and stretches deep into the building where more shelving disappears into shadow.

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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