Building 137 seven samurai painted to replicate an 1880s

painted to replicate an 1880s American frontier town on a narrow riverside site in Nikko

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

Cold light pushes through a grimy window

and empty shelves sit under a coat of dust in the production packaging room of Peters Creameries Pty Ltd's Chatham factory

Building 137 seven samurai painted to replicate an 1880sBuilding 137 at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve stands with its windows open to the weather, the Federation face brick slowly surrendering to decades without maintenance. The Royal Australian Navy operated this site from 1921 until 1999, storing and distributing armaments across a 100 hectare precinct laced with narrow gauge railway. Part of the Newington Armory series.