Factory Floor Size:XL Heavy steel gates rusted shut

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

The dispatch office at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood sits as it was left: papers across the floor

returned after time at a council depot

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

settling across the timber post-and-beam interior of the five-storey mill that operated from June 1922 until 2009

Factory Floor Size:XL Heavy steel gates rusted shutThe factory floor of the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood stretches into the distance, rusting machinery still positioned at its stations under light falling from high industrial windows. Glass production ran here from 1890 until the plant closed in January 2012, over 100 years under four corporate identities. Part of the O I Glass series.