Machining Workshop overcast Cement Mill Conveyor at Kandos

Cement Mill Conveyor at Kandos

The depot operated under Royal Australian Navy control from 1921 until 1999

where thousands of workers and their families lived and laboured at Chichibu Mine

the tall grass beneath uncut

the main lube pumps

Machining Workshop overcast Cement Mill Conveyor at KandosThe workshop floor runs the full length of the building, bare concrete under steel roof trusses, whitewashed brick walls catching light from clerestory windows above. Tall timber doors line the far end. One of several industrial structures within the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works at Portland, NSW, the precinct produced cement from 1902 until November 1991 and is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. Part of the Portland Cement Works