Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.
Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.

Boiler House Basement To Ceiling

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/9.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rusted steelwork rises from the boilerhouse ground floor to Babcock and Wilcox Boiler No. 1, still in situ in the northern section. The original boilers reached 30 metres to the roof. Boiler No. 1 is the only one of the four not removed during the 1990s decontamination.

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Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.Boiler House Basement To Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, steel framework climbs from the basement floor.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Basement To Ceiling
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-098
Process
Giclée
Captured
27 May 2016
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/9.0
Shutter
1s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 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

Looking from the boiler house basement at White Bay Power Station up to the ceiling, the photograph takes in the full vertical extent of the boiler-house volume: from the concrete floor of the basement, past the firing level and the upper drum-access levels, to the steel-truss roof structure above. The structural columns rise on both sides of the frame, with the catwalks at multiple levels crossing the bay. Where Boilers Nos. 2, 3, and 4 once stood, the space is now empty; the steel framework that surrounded them remains in place. Boiler No. 1 is partially visible in the upper-right portion of the frame. Daylight enters through clerestory openings in the roof above.

The boiler house at White Bay was the tallest internal volume in the plant, sized for the four Babcock & Wilcox boilers that originally stood 30 metres from floor to roof. Three of the four were removed during the 1990s decontamination program; Boiler No. 1 remains in situ. The view from basement to ceiling shows what is left: the structural skeleton, with the air where the working plant used to be. The plant ran from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983 across three build phases.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel framework climbs from the basement floor through multiple storeys of the boiler house at White Bay Power Station. Rust coats every beam and gantry. Brickwork lines the lower walls, blackened and pitted. A heavy iron hopper sits on the concrete floor below the structure. Weeds push through cracks at ground level. Light enters through high industrial windows, pale against the brown and grey of oxidised metal.

Brett Patman

White Bay Power Station

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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07 MORE FROM WHITE BAY POWER STATION

123 other prints in this series

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Control Room at White Bay Power Station, a curved control console wraps across the room in a wide arc.
Control Room $100.00
Turbine Hall at White Bay Power Station, reinforced concrete walls rise three storeys on each side, their surfaces stained.
Turbine Hall $100.00
Glass Curtain at White Bay Power Station, a towering mosaic of glass and steel, where light filters through dust-streaked.
Glass Curtain $100.00
Turbine and Condenser at White Bay Power Station, a steam turbine and its condenser sit on the operating floor of White Bay.
Turbine and Condenser $100.00
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