Crate Stack honkan Blue pneumatic lines trail down

Blue pneumatic lines trail down to the production floor below

Forty years before the 2016 photograph

Shearing pens and worn floorboards inside a woolshed near Dalgety

the factory left mid-breath after glass manufacturing wound down

Crate Stack honkan Blue pneumatic lines trail downA stack of timber crates rises toward the ceiling inside Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, rusting hinges still fixed to their weathered faces. These crates moved through a site that handled gunpowder, shells, depth charges, and torpedoes across 102 years of naval operations. The depot stored and distributed armaments for Australian, British, and United States Navy vessels from 1897 until the last ammunition operation in December 1999. Part