Control Room basement its paint peeling in long

its paint peeling in long strips under a flat grey sky

The building was constructed in 1967 as a purpose-built television set for the production of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

A coiled hose reel sits against a peeling wall

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

Dust coats every surface

Control Room basement its paint peeling in longRows 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.