Entertainment Hall Door

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The faded green door of the Entertainment Hall at White Bay Power Station, standing ajar with light spilling through onto the worn timber floor. The walls inside carry the marks of water damage and a single bench remains along one of them. Beyond the doorway, rusted scaffolding clings to the outside of the building.

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In situ

Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Entertainment Hall Door
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-044
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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 timber door in the entertainment hall at White Bay Power Station opens onto a small side room or service stair off the main hall floor. The door is hardwood, painted in the standard institutional green of the plant's working areas, scuffed at hand-height where decades of shift workers pushed against it. A small brass knob and a steel-plate keyhole sit at standard hand height. The wall around the door is concrete, painted institutional cream, with a small painted-on number above the door identifying the room. Through the partly-open door, scaffolding from later remediation work is visible in the room beyond.

The entertainment hall at White Bay Power Station served the plant's workforce of around 500 to 600 people at peak across the working life of the station from 1917 to Christmas Eve 1983. Doors like this one led to the storerooms, the kitchen, the side stairs, and the back-of-house spaces that supported the social events the hall hosted. The site has been state-owned and mostly vacant since closure, with remediation work undertaken in stages to make the building safe for the public openings (Biennale of Sydney 2024). The scaffolding visible in the doorway in this photograph is part of that work.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber floor. The faded green door stands ajar, inviting in the breeze but no visitors.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

124 photographs

White Bay Power Station is a former coal-fired power station on Wanngal Country at Rozelle, at the head of White Bay on Sydney Harbour, built to power Sydney's trams and suburban trains and in service from May 1917 until December 1983. The New South Wales Department of Railways designed it in its own drawing office and began building in June 1912. The turbine hall, boilerhouse, switch house and control room stand on a 38,000 square metre site behind two steel chimney stacks, the main steelwork stamped with British manufacturers' names.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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