Testing Room tall windows The building served as both

The building served as both post office and postmaster's residence

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

upper-floor windows empty against the sky

debris covers the timber floor below

making the stillness of this corner all the more striking

Testing Room tall windows The building served as bothThe testing room at Portland Cement Works Precinct sits largely as it was left, benches along the walls, dust settled across every surface. This chamber sat within the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's processing operation, where product quality was checked before cement left the works. Portland Cement Works Precinct operated from 1902 until cement production ceased in November 1991. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.