Smoko Area Size:M with classrooms refloored with tatami

with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests

The building sits somewhere between standing and gone

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

its surface marked by corrosion from years of exposure

The entrance to the Hornsby Quarry control room stands open

Smoko Area Size:M with classrooms refloored with tatamiThree armchairs sit on a concrete floor in what was the smoko area of the Northcote Shoe Factory, surrounded by collapsed cardboard boxes, steel shelving stacked with plastic crates, and a galvanised rubbish bin near the door. The factory on Arthurton Road, purpose built in 1926, operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.