Hand Basin Size:M first as a tuberculosis sanitorium

first as a tuberculosis sanitorium and later as a geriatric facility

Light reaches in from windows at the far end

Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

when corporate rationalisation shifted production elsewhere

produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s

Hand Basin Size:M first as a tuberculosis sanitoriumA porcelain hand basin, rust stained from years of disuse, sits fixed to the wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station. Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891, it now stands dry. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.