Front Gate timber Store at Kandos

Store at Kandos

The grinding pans and press machinery retained here represent the same fundamental technology introduced with the industrialisation of brickmaking in the latter nineteenth century

Designed by architect William de Putron and opened on 28 May 1927

dust settled across the machine and work surface

floor by floor

Front Gate timber Store at KandosWeathered brick pillars and rusting iron bars mark the front gate of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, the entry point to a site that stored and distributed armaments for the Royal Australian Navy from 1921 until the last ammunition operation in December 1999. The Federation face brick construction dates to the original 1897 establishment. Part of the Newington Armory series.