Radio workshop with classrooms refloored with tatami

with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests

Ball Mill Outlet at Ashio

Charge cranes were central to the steelmaking process

used for tracing radio beacon signals from coastal stations

The radio direction finder receiver on the bridge of MV Cape Don

Radio workshop with classrooms refloored with tatamiAn old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory, its metal casing thick with rust. It would have lived in the smoko area, the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people. The factory on Arthurton Road operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.