Power House Northern Interior steelgrate and forgotten machinery

and forgotten machinery

the first firm in NSW to successfully manufacture Portland cement

Worn floorboards carry a film of dust

Chair Storage Area at Yubari

its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades

Power House Northern Interior steelgrate and forgotten machineryInside the Powerhouse at Portland Cement Works, massive machinery stands silent beneath a steel truss roof. Originally two separate buildings joined as a single structure by 1910, the Powerhouse was central to cement production at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's works from 1902. An overhead gantry crane once ran the length of the building; the iron girders were imported from the same English manufacturer that supplied the Eveleigh Street