Dispatch city lights their colours still bright against

their colours still bright against the surrounding decay

Candelo Sunset at Australia and Japan

Froth Flotation Cells at Ashio

Honcho Shotenagi at Yubari

What remains today retains the physical evidence of a production process largely unchanged since the early twentieth century

Dispatch city lights their colours still bright againstA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.