Welding Bay carpark first as a tuberculosis sanitorium

first as a tuberculosis sanitorium and later as a geriatric facility

Seika Dormitory stood sealed in Bunkyo-ku for another six years before demolition in 2013

A hand-painted sign for the Rodeo Coffee Shop hangs above a dusty entrance

extracting blue metal aggregate under a succession of operators

The factory on Arthurton Road was purpose-built in 1926 and operating as the Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s

Welding Bay carpark first as a tuberculosis sanitoriumThe welding bay at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood sits idle, tools left in place where they were last set down, every surface filmed with dust and marked by rust. This was the maintenance side of a factory that at its peak employed 139 maintenance workers alone, a workforce large enough that their 19 week lockout in 1996 became a defining moment in Victorian industrial history. Part of the O I Glass series.