Numbla Vale Woolshed Size:L The factory opened in November

The factory opened in November 1939 and ran until the late 1990s

Graffiti covers every wall

Layers of paint and plaster peel from the wall of Female Ward 9

Equipment like this kept the production lines running through more than a century of glass manufacturing on this single site

operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry

Numbla Vale Woolshed Size:L The factory opened in NovemberCorrugated iron walls, oxidised to a flat grey, run the length of a woolshed exterior set on a granite boulder foundation. Small square windows punctuate the long facade, and a timber power pole stands in the foreground against a low, pressing sky. Part of the Woolshed series.