Control Room basement making it one of the

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

A coiled hose reel sits against a peeling wall

Natural light now falls through high windows onto bare floor and column bases

leaving the shell standing while all internal structures were removed

its paint peeling in long strips under a flat grey sky

Control Room basement making it one of theRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.