Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.
Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.

Boiler House Floor

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The boiler house floor at White Bay Power Station stretches, vast and silent. Rusting metals and debris mark the concrete expanse, remnants of its industrial era.

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Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.Boiler House Floor at White Bay Power Station, concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Floor
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-020
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 November 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/40 s
ISO
100
Focal length
21 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 boiler house floor at White Bay Power Station is the working operator level at the front of the boilers, with the burner platforms, the firing-control panels, and the access stairs to the upper drum-inspection levels rising from the floor. The floor itself is concrete, scuffed and stained from decades of foot traffic and the operating spills of coal dust, lubricants, and condensate. Bolt patterns mark where heavier instrument cabinets stood; some of the cabinets remain, others have been removed. Steel-grating walkways extend from the floor toward the boiler fronts. Daylight comes through the high windows along the perimeter walls.

The boiler house floor was the primary working position for the boiler-watch crew across every operating shift. From this level, operators ran the firing of the boilers in service, responded to the alarm board indicators, and dispatched fitters and electricians to upper-level work. The floor saw heavy foot traffic across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the floor stopped being walked on for working purposes. The bolt patterns, the cabinet positions, and the staining of the concrete are the record of decades of operation.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Concrete plinths line the boiler house floor where heavy machinery once sat bolted down. One rusted steel hopper remains, its access hatch hanging open, mounted on a low rail cart. Chains drop from overhead gantries into empty space. Blue-white light presses through a wall of steel-framed windows, three storeys tall, catching the grit and dust settled across every surface. Bare brick walls show damp staining and the first push of weeds through mortar joints.

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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