Magpie lens flare paint peeling in sheets from

paint peeling in sheets from the walls and rust settling across the old machinery

producing around 100 bread varieties from a 65-foot oven before the building was abandoned and ultimately demolished

Rendering Plant at Blayney

which operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999

Magpie lens flare paint peeling in sheets fromA magpie surveys the overgrown grounds of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve from a stretch of weathered concrete, unhurried and unbothered. The depot ran for 102 years as the Royal Australian Navy's primary armament storage and distribution facility on the Parramatta River, handling everything from gunpowder to torpedoes. These days the magpies have the run of it. Part of the Newington Armory series.