Magazine Looking Down warning its machinery settled under a

its machinery settled under a layer of dust

Empty catching pens and weathered timber framing inside a woolshed near Deddick Valley

6-hectare property that operated as a public wildlife park from January 1970 until 2006

This was the maintenance side of a factory that at its peak employed 139 maintenance workers alone

later trading as Purnell Shoe Company

Magazine Looking Down warning its machinery settled under aThe concrete interior of a munitions magazine at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve drops away below the frame, walls textured by decades of damp and stillness. Every surface here was engineered to contain a worst case event: double walls, copper earthing strips, concrete floors. The depot stored and distributed armaments for the Royal Australian Navy from 1921 until the last ammunition operation was conducted in December 1999. Part of the