Boiler House To Coal Handling Shed

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/200 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

From White Bay Power Station's colossal Boiler House, the interior view extends to the derelict Coal Handling Shed. This industrial landmark, operational from 1917, now stands as a monument to Sydney's power generation history.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House To Coal Handling Shed
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-024
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/200 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 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 at White Bay Power Station toward the coal handling shed, the view crosses the open floor of the bay toward the side-wall opening where the coal conveyor entered the building. Beyond the opening, the coal handling shed extends out along the slope toward the wharf. The shed is steel-framed and clad in corrugated iron, with the conveyor gallery rising on pylons through the centre of the structure. The boiler-house side of the opening carries the heavy fire doors that isolated the boiler hall from the conveyor when needed. The doors are open in the photograph, the conveyor route visible all the way to the receival hall.

The coal handling shed served as the buffer between the wharf and the boiler house. Coal arrived by ship at the wharf below the plant, was unloaded by gantry cranes into the receival hopper, passed across the weigher, ran up the conveyor to the bunkers, and dropped into the boilers above. The system handled millions of tonnes of coal across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the conveyor was shut down. The fire doors between the boiler house and the shed have stayed in place; the conveyor gallery beyond them is still suspended on its pylons.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel girders frame a wide opening between the boiler house and the coal handling shed. Clerestory windows line the upper walls, their wire-reinforced glass filtering pale blue sky into the interior. Below, a grid of steel-framed panels seals the passage at ground level. Beyond the glass, corrugated cladding on the coal shed has oxidised to deep rust and copper. Puddles sit on the concrete floor where water has pooled. The air feels damp, mineral, still.

Brett Patman

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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