Exhaust Fan furnace hinting at the rooms beyond

hinting at the rooms beyond

fragments scattered across the tile floor

left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s

Dust lies thick across the silent stage of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium's entertainment room

the instrument that transmitted speed commands from the bridge to the engineers below

Exhaust Fan furnace hinting at the rooms beyondA heavy industrial exhaust fan, blades thick with accumulated dust, sits motionless on a grimy wall of the former production floor. Ventilation of this kind was standard in adhesive heavy footwear manufacturing, where fumes built quickly. The Northcote Shoe Factory operated from purpose built premises on Arthurton Road from 1926, later trading as Purnell Shoe Company. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.