Main Floor To Mezzanine tunnel the scale of the operation

the scale of the operation filling the frame

The officers' smoke room aboard MV Cape Don

photographed in 2015 while the factory sat abandoned

the machinery that replaced open hearth steelmaking standing idle in a space built for continuous production

A cast iron and timber bench sits in uncut grass at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Main Floor To Mezzanine tunnel the scale of the operationA rusted iron staircase climbs from the main floor of the abandoned ABBCO Bakery towards the mezzanine above, its paint peeling back in layers, forgotten machinery sitting dormant in the dust beyond the landing. The Leichhardt facility was, by 1973, described by the Baking Trade Employees' Union of NSW as the biggest independent bakery in Australia. Part of the ABBCO Bakery series.