Smoko Area Type:Framed The Leichhardt factory had been

The Leichhardt factory had been described in 1973 as the biggest independent bakery in Australia

its corrugated iron walls rusted and concrete slowly returning to the bush around it

Electrical Control Room at Wangi Wangi

producing around 100 types of bread and distributing across Sydney via 22 retail shops

Smoko Area Type:Framed The Leichhardt factory had beenThree armchairs sit on a concrete floor in what was the smoko area of the Northcote Shoe Factory, surrounded by collapsed cardboard boxes, steel shelving stacked with plastic crates, and a galvanised rubbish bin near the door. The factory on Arthurton Road, purpose built in 1926, operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.