Rows of metal shelving packed with small yellow-labelled boxes fill the right side of this storage area at Wangi Power Station, with a dark green barrel and a wooden table bearing a piece of machinery to the left.
Rows of metal shelving packed with small yellow-labelled boxes fill the right side of this storage area at Wangi Power Station, with a dark green barrel and a wooden table bearing a piece of machinery to the left.

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

Rows of metal shelving packed with small yellow-labelled boxes fill the right side of this storage area at Wangi Power Station, with a dark green barrel and a wooden table bearing a piece of machinery to the left. A tall wooden ladder leans against the shelving and industrial pendant lights hang from the overhead beams. The bays still hold their labelled stock.

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In situ

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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
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

Rows of metal shelving packed with small yellow-labelled boxes fill the right side of this storage area at Wangi Power Station, with a dark green barrel and a wooden table bearing a piece of machinery to the left. A tall wooden ladder leans against the shelving and industrial pendant lights hang from the overhead beams. Debris is scattered across the concrete floor. The bays still hold their labelled stock.

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 buildings have been deteriorating 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

Wangi Power Station

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

Print sizes

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object: paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.

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07 MORE FROM WANGI POWER STATION

50 other prints in this series

All prints
Electrical Control Room at Wangi Power Station, cream ceramic tiles line both walls of a long corridor, their glaze still.
Electrical Control Room$100.00
Turbine Pedestal at Wangi Power Station, concrete columns rise three storeys to steel roof trusses spanning the full width.
Turbine Pedestal$100.00
Pedestal Looking Out Towards Switch Yard at Wangi Power Station, amidst the rusted remains of industry, a lone fern emerges.
Pedestal Looking Out Towards Switch Yard$100.00
B Station Between Turbine Hall And Boiler House at Wangi Power Station, concrete columns run in two rows down a central.
B Station Between Turbine Hall And Boiler House$100.00
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