Control Desk power station Arched window openings line the

Arched window openings line the right wall

its pages yellowed and brittle

purpose-built in 1926

The workshop floor at Sundell Holden's Smith Street service centre

Transformer Yard at Rozelle

Control Desk power station Arched window openings line theA heavy industrial control desk, its angled panel crowded with rotary dials and switches, sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry. Spray paint layers the surface; graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it. The quarry operated from around 1905 to 2002 under a succession of operators, producing crushed dolerite for road base across northern Sydney. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.