Control Desk power station The propeller shaft of MV

The propeller shaft of MV Cape Don

Daylight reaches in through high windows

The instrument was already here when the building operated as a public lodging and group training facility from around 1994

The commercial kitchen at Balmain Leagues Club stands emptied and rusting

purpose-built in 1926

Control Desk power station The propeller shaft of MVA heavy industrial control desk, its angled panel crowded with rotary dials and switches, sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry. Spray paint layers the surface; graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it. The quarry operated from around 1905 to 2002 under a succession of operators, producing crushed dolerite for road base across northern Sydney. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.