Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.
Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.

Turbine Hall Annexes

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Bay windows high on the wall separating the Switch House from the Turbine Hall, frames weathered, paint peeling. This section of the building dates from the B Station expansion of 1923 to 1928. The windows gave supervisors a view across both the switching equipment and the turbine floor below.

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Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.Turbine Hall Annexes at White Bay Power Station, three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall,.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Turbine Hall Annexes
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-076
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
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

Side rooms off the main turbine hall at White Bay Power Station open off the turbine hall floor through steel-framed doorways, each room a concrete-walled space used for auxiliary equipment and storage associated with the turbine plant. The rooms carry steel shelving on the walls, some still holding oil sample bottles, filter elements, and maintenance records in manila folders. Pipework from the main plant enters each room through wall penetrations, feeding oil coolers or seal water supplies for the adjacent turbine units. Overhead, cable runs on steel trays connect the auxiliary panels in the rooms to the turbine instrumentation. The floors are concrete, stained with oil drips from the plant above.

Turbine hall annexes at White Bay Power Station housed the auxiliary systems that supported the main generating plant: lube oil conditioning equipment, cooling water headers, seal steam supplies, and control and instrumentation panels. The Parsons turbines at White Bay required a continuous supply of clean, filtered lube oil to the rotor bearings, and the lube oil conditioning plant typically occupied a room adjacent to the turbine hall floor. White Bay ran from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983, with the turbine plant expanded during the B Station (1923 to 1928) and C Station (1945 to 1948) phases. After the Christmas Day 1983 shutdown the annexes were included in the 1990s decontamination survey. Heritage listing followed in April 1999.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three concrete annexes project from the boiler house wall, their observation windows catching pale light from above. Paint peels in wide sheets across the facade. Underneath, bare brickwork shows through where render has fallen away. A blue steel beam runs horizontally across the top of the frame. Red safety railings line the floor level below. The scale is massive. Each annex sits two storeys above ground, cantilevered out from walls thick with grime and mineral staining.

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

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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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