Control Room Entrance Size:S peeling paint on every wall

peeling paint on every wall

Peeling paint and weathered timber on the garden verandah of Queen Victoria Sanitorium

caught in 2015 not long before demolition

a structure once integral to moving materials across the site

The purpose-built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s

Control Room Entrance Size:S peeling paint on every wallThe entrance to the Hornsby Quarry control room stands open, its concrete walls and steel frames showing the wear of decades of active quarrying. The structure is part of the remnant crusher plant buildings that survived the quarry's closure in 2002, when CSR Construction Materials ended nearly a century of dolerite extraction on the site. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.