Magazine Hatch vents Nightclub Entrance at Bankstown

Nightclub Entrance at Bankstown

The silos are mid-twentieth century construction

Broken window panes admit the only light

The structures belong to the company-town grid that Nitchitsu Co

paint peeled back to bare grain

Magazine Hatch vents Nightclub Entrance at BankstownRust blooms across the heavy steel door of a magazine hatch at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering. The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward, each detail designed around the possibility of accidental detonation. Part of the Newington Armory series.