Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.
Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.

Workshop Entrance

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The entrance to a workshop at White Bay Power Station stands open. Inside, forgotten machinery and tools gather dust. Light filters through the grimy windows, illuminating decay.

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Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.Workshop Entrance at White Bay Power Station, a red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Workshop Entrance
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-090
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 November 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1.3s 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 entrance to the workshop at White Bay Power Station is a wide opening in the brick wall facing the main plant yard, framed by a steel-angle lintel and fitted with a double-leaf steel door, each leaf hinged to the frame at three points. The doors are currently tied open with chain and hook, the rust suggesting they have been in this position for some time. The concrete floor at the threshold is worn into a gentle slope where wheeled equipment has been moved in and out over decades. A strip light batten is mounted above the entrance on the interior face. On the wall beside the door a hand-painted sign gives the workshop designation and a safety notice in faded lettering. The threshold step is faced with a steel angle welded to the floor slab.

Workshop entrances at White Bay Power Station were built to allow large equipment to be moved for repair and overhaul. The workshop handled a wide range of maintenance work: valve grinding, pump rebuilds, bearing replacement, and general mechanical fitting. Plant at a station of this scale required continuous maintenance to stay available, and the workshop was a central part of the maintenance operation from the station's opening in 1917 to the Christmas Day 1983 shutdown. The double-leaf door width at the workshop entrance was determined by the size of the largest components that needed to pass through for overhaul. After closure the workshop entrance was secured during the 1990s decontamination. Heritage listing followed in April 1999.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A red brick partition sits inside a massive concrete void, its neat coursework cutting a low doorway into the wall behind. Paint peels from every surface in thick, curling sheets, exposing grey render beneath. The space rises two storeys. Concrete piers frame the opening. Debris and dust cover the floor. A bricked-up panel above the doorway blocks what was once a larger opening. Light falls flat and even across the textures.

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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