Storeroom Size:XS Inside Western Village

Inside Western Village

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

later operating under the Bradmill name as one of Australia's major denim manufacturers

000 people at its 1960 peak

Layers of peeling paint record the years between the factory floor's last shift and the day Brett Patman walked in

Storeroom Size:XS Inside Western VillageMetal shelving units stretch back through the upper storage floor at Awaba Colliery, their bays cleared of the parts and consumables that once stocked them. A single wooden clad unit breaks the run of bare steel along the right hand wall. Light falls through skylights in the corrugated roof, picking out water stains on the concrete wall and the dark patterns worn into the timber floorboards below. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.