Boiler House Flues Type:Acrylic Ball Mill at Ashio

Ball Mill at Ashio

replacing open hearth furnaces that had operated since 1931

faded decor peeling from walls that once served the Rozelle community

A boiler house wall at Portland Cement Works rises through the frame

Corrugated iron in faded pale blue and rust red wraps a timber-framed shearing shed raised on wooden stumps

Boiler House Flues Type:Acrylic Ball Mill at AshioCorroded steel and crumbling concrete: the boiler house flues at Portland Cement Works rise against open sky, stripped back to their structural bones. Part of a works that produced cement continuously from 1902 until November 1991, these flues once served a plant that at its peak supplied roughly 40% of all Portland cement manufactured in Australia. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.