Pump Hall Basement driver picking out concrete walls streaked

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

Cast iron columns rise from the cracked concrete floor of Malthouse One Lower

papers and debris still scattered across the desk

only eight years after it opened

Mosaic at Nikko

Pump Hall Basement driver picking out concrete walls streakedStanding water pools across the concrete floor of the pump hall basement at West Ryde Pumping Station, where derelict machinery stands silent beneath peeling paint and shadows. This sub basement level once supported the engine house that, by 1982, had become the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.