Upstairs Workshop backlight the complex operated for 96

the complex operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

Steel shelving lines the storeroom of the Northcote Shoe Factory

an empty shell on IN2 Light Industrial land in Chatswood East

Machinery like this moved grain through the mill's gravity-fed system

Upstairs Workshop backlight the complex operated for 96Workbenches and forgotten tools sit under a layer of dust in the upstairs workshop of the Northcote Shoe Factory, light pushing through grimy windows to fall across what was left behind. The building on the corner of Arthurton Road and Helen Street was purpose built in 1926, replacing two earlier premises on Eastment Street where the operation began. By the 1970s the factory was trading as Purnell Shoe Company. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory