Laboratory Tap basement trees visible through the broken

trees visible through the broken panes beyond

MV Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service from 1963 to 1990

The facility operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

Cast iron cam arms

one of a wave of inner-Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports

Laboratory Tap basement trees visible through the brokenA single laboratory tap extends from a tiled wall, its surface marked by corrosion from years of exposure. Below it, a ceramic sink bowl carries dark stains built up over decades of student use. The fixture sat in one of the classroom blocks at Macquarie Boys Technology High School in Rydalmere, a post war government campus that operated from 1957 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.