Pumping Hall Facing South boiler house The former Asahi Elementary School

The former Asahi Elementary School building was converted to group lodging in the mid-1990s

Spillway at Yubari

Turbine Governor at Rozelle

settling across discarded furniture and walls where the plaster has begun to lift

Clerestory windows at the far end throw light across the mess

Pumping Hall Facing South boiler house The former Asahi Elementary SchoolThe pumping hall of West Ryde Pumping Station stretches south, its derelict machinery standing in rows beneath diffused light. Station No. 2 was the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia when it was commissioned in September 1921, lifting water to the North Shore suburbs via a network of reservoirs at Chatswood, Pymble, and beyond. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.