Pumping Hall Facing South boiler house It would have lived in

It would have lived in the smoko area

beneath a ceiling of collapsed tiles and loose strip lighting

and these gauges would have monitored the steam plant that ran here continuously from 1921 until full electrification in 1982

settling across discarded furniture and walls where the plaster has begun to lift

Pumping Hall Facing South boiler house It would have lived inThe pumping hall of West Ryde Pumping Station stretches south, its derelict machinery standing in rows beneath diffused light. Station No. 2 was the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia when it was commissioned in September 1921, lifting water to the North Shore suburbs via a network of reservoirs at Chatswood, Pymble, and beyond. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.