English Block rock Heavy machinery crowds the blower

Heavy machinery crowds the blower room of the Mungo Scott Flour Mill

replacing open hearth furnaces that had operated since 1931

earth and debris filling the pit between column bases

Layers of peeling paint record the years between the factory floor's last shift and the day Brett Patman walked in

English Block rock Heavy machinery crowds the blowerA derelict classroom inside the English Block at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, Rydalmere. Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust, textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.