Dispatch rural debris and a rusted pipe

debris and a rusted pipe cover the floor

the overpass rising behind them

This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks

photographed in 2011

graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it

Dispatch rural debris and a rusted pipeA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.