Magazine Hatch cables Corrugated iron walls and weathered

Corrugated iron walls and weathered hardwood framing inside a woolshed near Biggin Hill

of Sydney at the factory's 1939 opening

Roto Feeder at Yarraville

A 1969 fire gutted it permanently

Positioned within the working vessel berthed at Balls Head Bay

Magazine Hatch cables Corrugated iron walls and weatheredRust blooms across the heavy steel door of a magazine hatch at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering. The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward, each detail designed around the possibility of accidental detonation. Part of the Newington Armory series.