Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.
Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.

Boiler House Exterior

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
15mm · f/8.0 · 1/250 · ISO 320
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Boiler House exterior at White Bay Power Station reveals its grand industrial scale. Crumbling brickwork and vacant window frames mark the decay of this once-vital structure, abandoned since 1983.

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Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.Boiler House Exterior at White Bay Power Station, a solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Exterior
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-122
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 February 2017
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/250 s
ISO
320
Focal length
15 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 exterior of the boiler house at White Bay Power Station carries the weathered red-brick facade that defines the seaward face of the plant. Rows of glazed bays between brick piers run along the wall at the upper levels, with castellated parapets above the roofline. A faded "Keep Out" sign clings to one of the access doors, its enamel worn through to the metal underneath. The brickwork has weathered through more than a century of harbour weather, darkened at the joints. Steel framework rises behind the parapets, carrying the flue ducting that runs up to the chimney stacks above.

White Bay Power Station was built by the NSW Government Railways and Tramways from 1912 onwards, with the original boiler house facade completed in time for the first day of operation on 3 July 1913. The boiler house held the four Babcock & Wilcox boilers that fed the original generating sets, with three further boilers added across the 1923-1928 and 1945-1948 build phases. The facade carries the architectural intent of the original Railways Department designers. The plant closed on Christmas Day 1983. The facade has weathered four more decades since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A solitary door, dwarfed by the towering red brick wall of the Boiler House, stands as a quiet reminder of the scale of White Bay Power Station.

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

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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