Boiler House Flues Colour:White Kinugawa River at Nikko

Kinugawa River at Nikko

its surface worn and marked by years of student projects

its platform edged by overgrown track and rust working steadily through the metalwork

preparing for shifts in a plant that processed condensed milk

Goalposts stand against an open sky

Boiler House Flues Colour:White Kinugawa River at NikkoCorroded steel and crumbling concrete: the boiler house flues at Portland Cement Works rise against open sky, stripped back to their structural bones. Part of a works that produced cement continuously from 1902 until November 1991, these flues once served a plant that at its peak supplied roughly 40% of all Portland cement manufactured in Australia. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.