Entertainment Hall Kitchen

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 36mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The kitchen behind the entertainment hall: a stainless-steel sink coated in dust, twin taps dry, cobwebs across the corners. Meals were prepared here for station workers throughout White Bay's operational life. The station ran continuously from 1917 to 1983, staffed around the clock.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Entertainment Hall Kitchen
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-045
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 36 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

The kitchen of the entertainment hall at White Bay Power Station is a small fitted-out room off the main hall, sized for the catering side of the workforce's social events. A stainless-steel bench runs along one wall with a sink at one end, a single-burner electric stove in the middle, and a small refrigerator at the other end. Cabinets above the bench hold the residue of working stock: cups, plates, cutlery in a drawer, a few biscuit tins. A serving hatch in the wall opens onto the main hall behind. The flooring is composite tile, the walls painted institutional cream. Light comes through a single window above the bench.

The entertainment hall at White Bay served the plant's workforce of around 500 to 600 at peak. The kitchen catered union meetings, after-shift functions, retirement parties, and the standing social events the workforce ran for itself across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the kitchen was abandoned with the rest of the hall. The fittings, the cups, and the serving hatch have stayed in place. The site has been opened to the public for arts and film events since, including the 2024 Biennale of Sydney.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The stainless steel sink lies coated in dust, its surface etched with the marks of time and neglect. Twin taps stand frozen in place, their dry spouts long since abandoned to silence.

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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