Front Gate Size:XS later trading as Purnell Shoe

later trading as Purnell Shoe Company

untouched since Balmain Leagues Club closed on 28 March 2010

paint peeling in sheets from the walls and rust settling across the old machinery

part of the self-contained community Nitchitsu built around Chichibu Mine

The machine was part of the Purnell Shoe Company's Arthurton Road operation

Front Gate Size:XS later trading as Purnell ShoeWeathered brick pillars and rusting iron bars mark the front gate of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, the entry point to a site that stored and distributed armaments for the Royal Australian Navy from 1921 until the last ammunition operation in December 1999. The Federation face brick construction dates to the original 1897 establishment. Part of the Newington Armory series.