Control Desk power station Switchboard at Yubari

Switchboard at Yubari

A feeder bin stands inside the Box Hill Brickworks

its lower facade clad in overlapping weathered timber boards gone grey with age

Part of the Seika Dormitory series

purpose-built in 1926

Control Desk power station Switchboard at YubariA heavy industrial control desk, its angled panel crowded with rotary dials and switches, sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry. Spray paint layers the surface; graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it. The quarry operated from around 1905 to 2002 under a succession of operators, producing crushed dolerite for road base across northern Sydney. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.