Control Room basement Dust coats every surface

Dust coats every surface

Built in 1916 across Nattai Creek from the original malthouses

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

Natural light now falls through high windows onto bare floor and column bases

Control Room basement Dust coats every surfaceRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.