Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.
Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.

Boiler House Mezzanine

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/5.6 · 1/20 · ISO 1600
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside White Bay Power Station, the boiler house mezzanine shows its skeletal structure. Decades of disuse have left a patina of decay on the industrial framework. This Rozelle landmark operated from 1917 to 1983.

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Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.Boiler House Mezzanine at White Bay Power Station, steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Mezzanine
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-100
Process
Giclée
Captured
27 May 2016
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/5.6
Shutter
1/20 s
ISO
1600
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

A mezzanine level in the boiler house at White Bay Power Station runs along one wall of the bay at about half-roof height, set on steel framing and supported by columns from the floor below. The mezzanine carries instrument cabinets and the boiler-feed control panels, with the operator's working position on the steel-grating decking. Cabling runs along the underside of the mezzanine to the panels above. The handrails along the open side of the mezzanine are painted in the standard pale industrial green of the plant, worn back to bare metal at the grip line. The view from the mezzanine takes in the boiler bay below, including the void where Boiler No. 2 once stood.

Mezzanines like this one were the standard way of getting more useful working area into a tall single-volume industrial building. At White Bay the boiler house mezzanines carried the upper-level instrumentation and the access points for the upper drum inspections on the boilers. The mezzanine in this photograph ran continuously across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the mezzanine was wound down with the rest of the plant. The instrument cabinets remained on the panel; the operators stopped coming up.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel grating stretches across the boiler house mezzanine, rust settling into every bar. Riveted columns and heavy I-beams rise through the frame. Gear mechanisms and control levers sit locked in position on the left, still bolted to their mountings. Overhead, conical hoppers and feed pipes hang from the steel roof structure. Light enters through tall industrial windows at the far wall, catching the pale grey of concrete and the brown of oxidised metal. The air in here smells of iron and old dust.

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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