Rear Workshop window Fractured concrete and opportunistic growth

Fractured concrete and opportunistic growth across the patio of Queen Victoria Sanitorium

A timber cottage sits at the edge of the overgrown grounds of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium

separated from the metal in the blast furnace and tapped off before the iron moves on

A ballast truck sits abandoned on the tracks at Bombala Railway Station

Rear Workshop window Fractured concrete and opportunistic growthHundreds of pale blue shoe lasts cover the concrete floor of the rear workshop at the Northcote Shoe Factory, pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations. The purpose built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s, before the broader collapse of Melbourne's footwear industry shuttered it for good. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.