Boiler 2 Void

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 27mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The boilerhouse operating floor at White Bay Power Station, looking down into the void left where Boiler No. 2 once stood. Three of the four original Babcock and Wilcox boilers were removed during the 1990s decontamination; Boiler No. 1 remains in situ in the northern section.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler 2 Void
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-012
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 27 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, 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

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The void where Boiler No. 2 once stood at White Bay Power Station is a vertical empty space inside the boiler-house structural framing. The floor is concrete, marked with the anchor patterns where the boiler was bolted down, oil-stained from decades of operation. Steel structural members rise around the void to the height the boiler reached, with the catwalks at multiple levels still in place. Where the cladding panels of the boiler casing once enclosed the volume, the structural steel is now exposed, weathered to a darker tone. Plant growth has come up through some of the lower-level gratings, finding light through the openings in the cladding above.

The original A Station boiler house at White Bay held four Babcock & Wilcox boilers, each up to thirty metres tall. Three of the four were removed during the 1990s decontamination and stripping program; only Boiler No. 1 remains in situ. The voids of Boilers Nos. 2, 3, and 4 are visible as empty spaces inside the structural framing. The void in this photograph is one of those three. The plant closed on Christmas Day 1983. The boilers came out roughly a decade later. The structural skeleton that surrounded each boiler is what remains.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

An empty void where Boiler No. 2 once stood, its absence leaving behind a cathedral of steel and shadow. Sunlight spills through towering windows, casting long beams across the floor where machinery once roared.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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