Dispatch city lights their colours still bright against

their colours still bright against the surrounding decay

A steel slab taken mid-cut

one of the frontier town false-front buildings that formed the heart of the park's Western Land zone

The park operated from January 1970 until 2006

Disused machinery and intricate pipework fill the concentrate room at Peters Creameries Pty Ltd's Chatham factory

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.