Dispatch rural graffiti covers the concrete walls

graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it

fabric scraps and tools left where production stopped

photographed in 2011

the overpass rising behind them

This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks

Dispatch rural graffiti covers the concrete wallsA single work boot sits on a dusty timber floor, left behind when the Northcote Shoe Factory closed sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The factory, purpose built on Arthurton Road in 1926, produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, one of a wave of inner Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.