Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.
Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.

Roller Door

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A corroded roller door between the Turbine Hall and the Ash Handling Yard, light seeping through the gaps. Steam turbines on one side; the rail corridor carrying combustion residue out on the other. The station ran this cycle from 1917 to 1983.

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Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.Roller Door at White Bay Power Station, a steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Roller Door
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-062
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 November 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
13s 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

A roller door at White Bay Power Station is a heavy steel unit set in a masonry opening in the plant wall. The door is corrugated steel, the standard industrial pattern of mid-twentieth-century construction, and runs on a track fixed to the lintel above the opening. The operating chain hangs on one side of the opening. The steel panels carry rust along the horizontal corrugations and the lower edge, where water has sat over decades. The door mechanism housing is fixed to the concrete header above. The floor at the base of the door shows vehicle marks in the concrete from years of equipment movement through the opening.

Roller doors of this type gave access for large plant equipment across the White Bay Power Station site. The station was built across three phases from 1912 to 1948, and each construction phase brought new equipment into the plant through access doors sized for the machinery. Turbine components, boiler sections, transformer units, and switch gear all required large openings to reach their installation positions. The station operated continuously from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983 supplying the tram and rail network and, after 1958, the wider NSW electricity grid. After closure the access doors were progressively secured. The heritage listing in April 1999 recorded the site's industrial plant infrastructure including the service access systems.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A steel roller door fills the frame, sealed shut between concrete walls. Light punctures through corrosion holes and the gap along the floor, throwing bright points across the ground like a scatter of coins. Rust stains bleed down the door's horizontal slats. Pipework runs along the left wall. Paint peels from the concrete in wide patches. The floor is thick with grit and debris.

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

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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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