Control Room basement Dust coats every surface

Dust coats every surface

Empty tables and chairs occupy the main dining area of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

Built in 1916 across Nattai Creek from the original malthouses

Control Room basement Dust coats every surfaceRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.