Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.
Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.

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

A heavy wooden door marks the entrance to the entertainment hall within White Bay Power Station. Paint peels and layers of rust colour the surface, reflecting years of disuse. This once vibrant space now stands silent.

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Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.Entertainment Hall Door at White Bay Power Station, light spills through the open doorway, cutting across the worn timber.
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
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 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 Day 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

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

Print sizes

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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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