Exhaust Fan furnace fragments scattered across the tile

fragments scattered across the tile floor

the instrument that transmitted speed commands from the bridge to the engineers below

Dust lies thick across the silent stage of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium's entertainment room

when the last permanent resident left

when General Motors withdrew the Holden franchise from Australia

Exhaust Fan furnace fragments scattered across the tileA heavy industrial exhaust fan, blades thick with accumulated dust, sits motionless on a grimy wall of the former production floor. Ventilation of this kind was standard in adhesive heavy footwear manufacturing, where fumes built quickly. The Northcote Shoe Factory operated from purpose built premises on Arthurton Road from 1926, later trading as Purnell Shoe Company. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.