Wash House insane asylum Air Conditioned Car at Eveleigh

Air Conditioned Car at Eveleigh

Coal production ended in 1990

and the engine house it anchors has never stopped pumping since

cutting clean shafts through the darkness and catching dust suspended in the still air

Wash House insane asylum Air Conditioned Car at EveleighInside the Wash House at Portland Cement Works, rusted laundry machines stand where workers once cleaned up after shifts in one of Australia's most significant cement plants. The building is part of a precinct that produced cement from 4 August 1902 until November 1991, sustaining a town of more than 3,000 people at its peak. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.