Rivets pylons Inside the Powerhouse at Portland

Inside the Powerhouse at Portland Cement Works

Eveleigh Paint Shop Forecourt at Eveleigh

the building once housed the overhead gantry crane that ran the length of the works

These amenities served the workers who kept the furnaces running across more than a century of glass manufacturing on the site

Rivets pylons Inside the Powerhouse at PortlandHeavy iron rivets secure a large pipe inside West Ryde Pumping Station, rust blooming across the grey metal after decades of continuous service. The pipe is part of Station No. 2, commissioned in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia. West Ryde Pumping Station has supplied water to Sydney's northern suburbs without interruption since that year. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.