Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.
Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.

Boiler House Ceiling

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 320
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The intricate ceiling structure within the White Bay Power Station boiler house reveals layers of industrial decay. Rusting steel beams and exposed pipework are bathed in ambient light.

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Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.Boiler House Ceiling at White Bay Power Station, looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Ceiling
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-121
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 February 2017
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/2 s
ISO
320
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
03 THE STORY

About this print

The ceiling of the boiler house at White Bay Power Station is the steel-truss roof structure that spans the building, visible from the operator level looking up. Heavy lattice trusses run across the width of the hall at regular intervals, supporting the corrugated cladding of the roof above. Between the trusses, skylight panels admit daylight in regular bands across the ceiling. Steel cable trays run along the underside of the trusses, carrying the cabling that fed the upper-level instrumentation. The ceiling height is significant: the boilers below rose 30 metres to the roof in the original A Station boiler house, and the ceiling sits above them.

The boiler house was the tallest internal volume in the plant, sized to accommodate the towering Babcock & Wilcox boilers that fed the generating sets below. The roof structure carried the loads of the ash conveyors above the boilers, the maintenance crane that handled the heavier components, and the flue ducting that ran up to the chimney stacks outside. The roof was completed across the 1912 to 1917 build phase of A Station and extended in the 1923-1928 and 1945-1948 phases. The plant closed on Christmas Day 1983. The roof has been holding the building up since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Looking up from the ground floor of the White Bay Power Station Boiler House, the sheer intricacy of its engineered patterns unfolds. Steel beams, grates, and platforms intersect in a rhythmic grid, forming a structure that is both functional and artistic.

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

Print sizes

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07 MORE FROM WHITE BAY POWER STATION

123 other prints in this series

All prints
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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