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

4052 Double Deck Seats at Eveleigh

The Smith Street building served as the workshop and service centre for Sundell Holden

built to service the factory workforce that manufactured precision totalisator systems for racecourses across 29 countries

rusting machinery still positioned at its stations under light falling from high industrial windows

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.