Chimney

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1/400 · ISO 160
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A riveted steel stack rises from a tapered base between the turbine hall and boiler house at White Bay Power Station. Guy wires angle outward from mid-height. Concrete barriers sit at its base.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Chimney
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-030
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/400 s
ISO: 160
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

A single chimney rises above White Bay Power Station, photographed from inside one of the upper-level rooms looking out through a window opening. The chimney is a steel cylinder, painted dark, weathered along the prevailing wind side. The base of the chimney is set into the brick of the boiler-house roof structure; the upper section rises clear of the building to its full operating height. The framing of the window through which the chimney is photographed carries the original 1917-era ironwork, paint flaking, the glass in the panes broken in places. The sky behind the chimney is partly clouded.

White Bay Power Station was a coal-fired plant built by the NSW Government Railways and Tramways from 1912 onwards. The first generating sets came online in 1917, with later build phases adding to the plant through 1928 and 1948. The chimneys above the boiler house carried the flue gases from the boilers up to the atmosphere across every operating shift to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the chimneys were left where they stood. They are still visible from many vantage points across Sydney Harbour, the most obvious silhouette of the station as seen from the city.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Riveted steel panels rise skyward, forming the towering chimney of White Bay Power Station’s Ash Handling Yard. Anchored with thick bolts and tensioned guy wires, its weathered surface tells the story of decades of industrial operation.

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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