Mill Hoist Floor green cape Rows of small windows climb

Rows of small windows climb the facade above a timber door set into the granite

caught in the moment sunlight breaks through the gaps and hits the floor

Standing water pools across the concrete floor of the pump hall basement at West Ryde Pumping Station

first as a tuberculosis sanatorium from 1903

The building opened as Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School in 1975

Mill Hoist Floor green cape Rows of small windows climbA timber staircase rises against a granite and locally made brick wall inside the four storey Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills, thick ropes hanging from a timber hoist frame in the foreground. The mill was built in 1859 by Charles Dransfield using stone quarried from the farm and beams cut from the Budawang Ranges, with engineering by P. N. Russell and Co. of Sydney. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.