Rivets Size:XL sealing stores designed to keep

sealing stores designed to keep gunpowder and high explosives stable in a depot that handled armaments for 102 years

A timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow

The building operated as a group lodging facility from around 1994 until 2006

A magpie surveys the overgrown grounds of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve from a stretch of weathered concrete

Rivets Size:XL sealing stores designed to keepHeavy iron rivets secure a large pipe inside West Ryde Pumping Station, rust blooming across the grey metal after decades of continuous service. The pipe is part of Station No. 2, commissioned in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia. West Ryde Pumping Station has supplied water to Sydney's northern suburbs without interruption since that year. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.