Garden Verandah mountains Decaying machinery and discarded components

Decaying machinery and discarded components crowd the closures floor of the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood

Render peels from the upper walls while bare scrub pushes up at the base

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

Clinker Bins at Rozelle

and a canteen for the precision engineers and machinists who built totalisator systems for racecourses across 29 countries

Garden Verandah mountains Decaying machinery and discarded componentsPeeling paint and weathered timber on the garden verandah of Queen Victoria Sanitorium, photographed in 2015. The structure sits within a purpose designed Edwardian pavilion plan sanatorium complex on Kings Tableland, Wentworth Falls, designed by architect George Sydney Jones between 1902 and 1921. The facility operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999. Part of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium series.