Coal Bunkers roller door Desks and chairs remain where

Desks and chairs remain where students left them

The structure sits within a purpose-designed Edwardian pavilion-plan sanatorium complex on Kings Tableland

the machinery that replaced open hearth steelmaking standing idle in a space built for continuous production

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

this purpose-built venue at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street served the Balmain Tigers community

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