Welding Bay carpark B Station Between Turbine Hall

B Station Between Turbine Hall And Boiler House at Wangi Wangi

A hand-painted sign for the Rodeo Coffee Shop hangs above a dusty entrance

Meander at Australia and Japan

its framework catching the flat light of a site that processed dolerite aggregate for almost a century

Welding Bay carpark B Station Between Turbine HallThe welding bay at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood sits idle, tools left in place where they were last set down, every surface filmed with dust and marked by rust. This was the maintenance side of a factory that at its peak employed 139 maintenance workers alone, a workforce large enough that their 19 week lockout in 1996 became a defining moment in Victorian industrial history. Part of the O I Glass series.