Radio workshop with classrooms refloored with tatami

with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

curtains hanging in strips

Charge cranes were central to the steelmaking process

The building was constructed in 1967 as a purpose-built television set for Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Radio workshop with classrooms refloored with tatamiAn old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory, its metal casing thick with rust. It would have lived in the smoko area, the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people. The factory on Arthurton Road operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.