Numbla Vale Woolshed Size:L operated under the Purnell Shoe

operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports dismantled the local footwear industry

The club operated from its purpose-built Rozelle premises from 1957

Equipment like this kept the production lines running through more than a century of glass manufacturing on this single site

Graffiti covers every wall

Layers of paint and plaster peel from the wall of Female Ward 9

Numbla Vale Woolshed Size:L operated under the Purnell ShoeCorrugated iron walls, oxidised to a flat grey, run the length of a woolshed exterior set on a granite boulder foundation. Small square windows punctuate the long facade, and a timber power pole stands in the foreground against a low, pressing sky. Part of the Woolshed series.