Rivets pylons A timber-frame building

A timber-frame building

Inside the Powerhouse at Portland Cement Works

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

500 patients against a designed capacity of 766

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

Rivets pylons A timber-frame buildingHeavy 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.