Magazine Hatch vents Auditorium Windows at Bankstown

Auditorium Windows at Bankstown

Broken window panes admit the only light

paint peeled back to bare grain

a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season

part of a shift away from ingot casting that would transform the entire steelmaking process

Magazine Hatch vents Auditorium Windows at BankstownRust blooms across the heavy steel door of a magazine hatch at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering. The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward, each detail designed around the possibility of accidental detonation. Part of the Newington Armory series.