Slab Cutting fire Turbine Hall Basement at Rozelle

Turbine Hall Basement at Rozelle

Peters Creameries Pty Ltd opened this factory at Chatham on 4 November 1939 before a crowd of approximately 5

Photographed 2016

its faded signage and shuttered entrance intact above a footpath that sees little traffic now

The fitting was part of the multi-level building at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street

Slab Cutting fire Turbine Hall Basement at RozelleA steel slab taken mid cut, molten sparks cascading in every direction, the scale of the operation filling the frame. This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks, where slabs produced from 200 250 tonne BOS vessels move through the plant as flat steel destined for domestic and export markets. Australia's largest crude steel production plant, photographed in 2016. Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series.