Conveyor Eight windows Dust coats its faded buttons

Dust coats its faded buttons and display

Quarrying here from around 1905 until 2002 cut more than 100 m through a Jurassic volcanic neck

The Queen Victoria Sanitorium ran as a tuberculosis sanatorium from 1903 until 1958

rust tracing patterns across pipes and gears

and a green-painted gantry staircase running along the left

Conveyor Eight windows Dust coats its faded buttonsConveyor Eight lies collapsed across the concrete floor of the processing shed at Hornsby Quarry, steel framing leaning at angles overhead and graffiti covering every wall. The shed is one of the remnant crusher plant buildings from a quarry that supplied crushed dolerite to northern Sydney's roads from around 1905 until 2002. Operators passed through several hands over nearly a century before CSR Construction Materials ran the final years. Part of