Factory Laneway Type:Framed A cast iron hopper stove

A cast iron hopper stove sits bolted to the concrete floor of a workshop building at the Portland Cement Works

cloud-layered sky

its walls eaten through with rust and paint peeled back to bare timber framing

doors open

throwing back a reflection of the decaying walls and silent machinery above

Factory Laneway Type:Framed A cast iron hopper stoveA gravel laneway cuts between a two storey clad building with blue framed windows and a brick warehouse, steel pipe gantries and a yellow caged ladder rising to one side. The laneway ran through the former Davies Coop Bradmill factory at Yarraville, a cotton dyeing and finishing complex developed from 1952 and later one of Australia's principal denim manufacturing sites. Part of the Bradmill Denim series.