Coal Bunkers roller door Desks and chairs remain where

Desks and chairs remain where students left them

and a canteen alongside the main precision manufacturing factory

light cutting through a space that once served school children and

water pooling at the base and throwing light back up the shaft

Coal Bunkers roller door Desks and chairs remain whereThe coal bunkers of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015: riveted steel beams, bolted plate connections thick with rust, and a green painted gantry staircase running along the left. Coal was gravity fed from roof level bunkers into the boilers below, delivered by rail to the reinforced concrete coal staith alongside. Station No. 2 adopted pulverised coal fuel for its boilers between 1922 and 1927. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station