Boiler House
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/4.0 · 0.5s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Provenance
Inside the Boiler House at West Ryde Pumping Station, a large boiler stands silent. Decades of rust and decay mark its metal surface. This structure once drove critical water infrastructure.
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Limited edition
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In situ
Print datasheet
- Title
- Boiler House
- Series
- West Ryde Pumping Station
- Catalogue
- WRP-001
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 26 August 2015
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- West Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Where this was photographed
West Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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From the field notes
The boilers used to sit to the left of the frame but were removed when the pumping station was converted to electrically driven pumps.
— Brett Patman
The series
West Ryde Pumping Station
Ryde Pumping Station, on the corner of Victoria Road and Hermitage Road in West Ryde, was the largest pumping station in Australia when its 1921 building was completed. The first station on the site went up in 1891, taking water from Potts Hill Reservoir and lifting it to Ryde tank and Chatswood through a pair of 146-horsepower vertical compound pumping engines moving 3,400 gallons a minute. The second and larger station was commissioned on 15 September 1921 and absorbed the work; the original station ceased pumping in November 1930 and was demolished in 1961. The 1921 station continues to operate as a working water utility, and was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 15 November 2002. Engineering Heritage Australia recognised the place in 2017. The Lost Collective photographs are of the heritage interior of the working station.
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