Magazine Hatch vents Nightclub Entrance at Bankstown

Nightclub Entrance at Bankstown

The silos are mid-twentieth century construction

Auditorium Windows at Bankstown

The structures belong to the company-town grid that Nitchitsu Co

Post-WWII surplus Nissen huts found a second life across the Australian countryside as farm buildings

Magazine Hatch vents Nightclub Entrance at BankstownRust 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.