Magazine Hatch cables and whatever the land would

and whatever the land would give

paint peeling from the walls and the surfaces stained by years of disuse

Store Roof at Wangi Wangi

of Sydney at the factory's 1939 opening

The site opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium on Kings Tableland and operated continuously for 96 years

Magazine Hatch cables and whatever the land wouldRust 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.