Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Refinery at Ashio

Refinery at Ashio

its corrugated iron shell catching the light against a wide rural sky

Sunlight cuts through the collapsing roof of a shearers' quarters somewhere in rural New South Wales

Light cuts through an open doorway at the far end

Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Refinery at AshioThe main pump hall of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015 facing north, concrete floor thick with dust and paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips. Station No. 2 was completed in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia, and listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2002. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.