Showers Colour:Raw The turbine hall

The turbine hall

Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived at Port Kembla in 1972

The powerhouse itself dates to around 1902

coated in dust and discoloured with age

A prep bench runs down the centre

Showers Colour:Raw The turbine hallWater stained shower stalls, tiles gone grimy and paint peeling from the walls, inside the former O I Glass factory at Spotswood. These amenities served the workers who kept the furnaces running across more than a century of glass manufacturing on the site. Glass production at Spotswood began in 1890 and continued until January 2012, when the factory closed and the buildings were subsequently demolished. Part of the O I Glass series.