Pump House Equipment and Panel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A bank of pressure gauges and regulators lines the control panel inside White Bay Power Station's pump house. Chains hang from overhead gantries. Peeling paint curls from cabinet doors along the far wall. Concrete dust covers the floor.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Pump House Equipment and Panel
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-057
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 4s s
ISO: 100
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

The pump house equipment and control panel at White Bay Power Station occupy one of the lower levels of the plant, where the cooling-water pumps lifted harbour water from the intake to the condensers above. The pumps are heavy vertical units, each one a multi-stage centrifugal machine bolted to a concrete plinth, with the drive motor stacked on top and the discharge piping rising into the building. The control panel beside the pumps carries the local instrumentation: pressure gauges, flow indicators, motor-running lamps. The walls of the pump house are concrete, stained where decades of leakage have worked at the surface. Daylight comes through a small window high on the wall.

White Bay's cooling water came from the harbour at the unlimited rate the lake-edge siting allowed. The plant was located specifically for that water access: the pump house lifted seawater from the intake, passed it through the condensers under the turbine hall, and discharged the warmed water back into the bay. The pumps and the control panel ran continuously through every operating shift from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the pumps were shut down and the cooling-water system drained. The equipment remains where it was last operated.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The rusted panel still holds its cracked gauges, their needles frozen in place, remnants of a time when this pump house pulsed with industry. Once essential to maintaining steam pressure and flow, the surrounding equipment now sits coated in dust and corrosion, its levers and valves untouched for decades.

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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