Beach Park Motel, Wollongong sheep operating as Purnell Shoe Company

operating as Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports contracted Melbourne's footwear industry

rust blooming in patches where decades of weather have worked through the metal

leaving the building to sit untouched for years

An old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory

and scattered papers remain in the administration office of Peters Creameries Pty Ltd's Chatham factory

Beach Park Motel, Wollongong sheep operating as Purnell Shoe CompanyBeach Park Motel, Wollongong at New South Wales, Australia. Photographed 2015. Available unframed, framed, or face mounted on metallic gloss.