Dispatch city lights debris and a rusted pipe

debris and a rusted pipe cover the floor

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

Built in 1927 to house Taiwanese students studying in Japan

A darkened entrance opens into the auditorium of the former Balmain Leagues Club

A conveyor belt climbs steeply through the remnant crusher plant at Hornsby Quarry

Dispatch city lights debris and a rusted pipeA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.