Front Gate timber their screens and controls dulled

their screens and controls dulled under years of settled dust

Designed by architect William de Putron and opened on 28 May 1927

The grinding pans and press machinery retained here represent the same fundamental technology introduced with the industrialisation of brickmaking in the latter nineteenth century

paint peeling

Front Gate timber their screens and controls dulledWeathered brick pillars and rusting iron bars mark the front gate of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, the entry point to a site that stored and distributed armaments for the Royal Australian Navy from 1921 until the last ammunition operation in December 1999. The Federation face brick construction dates to the original 1897 establishment. Part of the Newington Armory series.