Bottle Kiln Type:Unframed The testing room at Portland

The testing room at Portland Cement Works Precinct sits largely as it was left

Structures like this housed the seasonal workforce that kept pastoral runs running through the wool boom years and well beyond

overhead power lines forming a dense web against a grey Hokkaido sky

The school operated from its North Parramatta campus from 1957 until its closure in 2009

Bottle Kiln Type:Unframed The testing room at PortlandOne of two surviving brick bottle kilns at Portland Cement Works Precinct, standing approximately 14 metres high with steel clamping bands visible at regular intervals along the brickwork. These kilns date to around 1889, predating the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works by over a decade. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.