Boiler Blueprint

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/4.0 · 1/50 · ISO 640
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A detailed blueprint for a boiler lies discarded within White Bay Power Station. Its intricate lines reveal the complex engineering once essential for generating Sydney's power.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler Blueprint
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter: 1/50 s
ISO: 640
Focal length: 24 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

A boiler blueprint is mounted under glass on the wall of one of the operations rooms at White Bay Power Station, the sheet a large engineering drawing showing the construction of one of the plant's Babcock & Wilcox boilers. The drawing is the standard ink-on-linen engineering tracing from the period: orthographic views in plan, elevation, and section, with dimensions hand-lettered in the margins. The frame is timber, varnished darker than the surrounding wall. The glass over the drawing is dim with age. The blueprint has faded along the right edge where afternoon light has worked at the linen over decades.

Engineering drawings of this kind were the working reference for the maintenance crews at White Bay. Each major piece of plant had a set of drawings stored on site for shift access, with the blueprints in the operations rooms being the most-used set. The Babcock & Wilcox boilers at White Bay were each 30 metres tall, and the drawings of them ran to dozens of sheets each. The boilers ran from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. The blueprint in this photograph is one of the surviving drawings, still mounted on the wall it has been mounted on for decades.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A faded blueprint, discolored with time, detailing the entire Boiler House from one side. Once a precise guide for engineers and builders, this plan mapped out the towering structure that housed White Bay’s boilers. Every duct, stairwell, and support beam is carefully drawn, a technical masterpiece that translated vision into steel and brick.

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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