Annex Door flock of birds Peeling paint and industrial residue

Peeling paint and industrial residue coat the walls of a space that once handled Holden aftersales work for Sydney's North Shore

Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust

Looking Down Retort Building at Bathurst

its rusted frame and peeling paint marking years of disuse

Faded court lines mark the dusty floor alongside rusted equipment

Annex Door flock of birds Peeling paint and industrial residueA door to the Munitions Annex stands partially open, its surface stripped back to bare rusted metal and peeling paint. The annex was built in 1943 during wartime production at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works, a plant that by then had been supplying cement across Australia for four decades. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.