Meal Room Type:Framed replacing the open hearth furnaces

replacing the open hearth furnaces that had operated since 1931

Built in 1916 across Nattai Creek from the original malthouses

light filtering through grimy windows onto forgotten equipment

leaving the building to sit untouched for years

Meal Room Type:Framed replacing the open hearth furnacesDust coats the tables and chairs of the meal room inside the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood, the factory left mid breath after glass manufacturing wound down. Built up through more than a century of continuous operation under four corporate identities, from Melbourne Glass Bottle Works through AGM, ACI, and finally O I Glass, the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock. Part of the O I Glass series.