Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Refinery at Ashio

Refinery at Ashio

closed eight years later as the coal industry hollowed out the city

sunlight pressing through grimy windows onto the wreckage below

Small square windows punctuate the long facade

Sunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales

Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Refinery at AshioThe main pump hall of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015 facing north, concrete floor thick with dust and paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips. Station No. 2 was completed in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia, and listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2002. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.