Boiler House Basement light-and-minimal its keys fused and blackened

its keys fused and blackened by fire

vegetation pushes up through the gravel

Hornsby Quarry supplied crushed dolerite for road construction across northern Sydney from around 1905 until operations ceased in 2002

The campus closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2018

Boiler House Basement light-and-minimal its keys fused and blackenedThe boiler house basement of West Ryde Pumping Station holds large pipe runs and decayed machinery, rust working across every metal surface. This was the industrial core of Station No. 2, the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia when it opened in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.