Cross Machine Shop Size:XL and broken furniture

and broken furniture

the conduits branching and doubling back across one another at industrial scale

its corrugated iron roof rusted to deep ochre and orange beneath the sun

and an abandoned machine sitting in the passage beyond

Cross Machine Shop Size:XL and broken furnitureHeavy machinery stands silent inside the Cross Machine Shop at Portland Cement Works, rust coating the metal surfaces as light filters through broken windows onto the tools left behind. The workshop sits within a Federation and Inter War period industrial complex that once drove production of approximately 40% of Australia's Portland cement by 1912. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.