Rear Workshop Colour:N/A Kent Ltd gauges sit mounted

Kent Ltd gauges sit mounted on cast iron fittings inside West Ryde Pumping Station: white enamel faces

its keys fused and blackened by fire

Locker units line the walls beneath four steel-framed windows

the faded yellow bay markings still legible beneath years of neglect

Inside Western Village's frontier town post office

Rear Workshop Colour:N/A Kent Ltd gauges sit mountedHundreds of pale blue shoe lasts cover the concrete floor of the rear workshop at the Northcote Shoe Factory, pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations. The purpose built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s, before the broader collapse of Melbourne's footwear industry shuttered it for good. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.