Control Desk power station Limited and open editions

Limited and open editions

Switchboard at Yubari

purpose-built in 1926

Malthouse Three was completed in 1916 across Nattai Creek

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

Control Desk power station Limited and open editionsA 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.