Dispatch rural one of several timber-framed false-front

one of several timber-framed false-front facades built to replicate 1880s American main-street architecture

photographed in 2011

This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks

The timber wharf at Balls Head Bay

Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series

Dispatch rural one of several timber-framed false-frontA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.