Chair duffys forest Sunlight cuts through broken windows

Sunlight cuts through broken windows into the Honky-Tonk saloon at Western Village

paint peeling back to reveal the layers beneath

when it was abandoned as the city entered fiscal rehabilitation

its paint peeling in long strips under a flat grey sky

The salt water circulating pump and the engine's heat exchanger sit to the right

Chair duffys forest Sunlight cuts through broken windowsA solitary timber chair sits inside West Ryde Pumping Station, its paint peeling back to bare grain. The station has pumped water to Sydney's northern suburbs continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921, making the stillness of this corner all the more striking. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.