Rear Workshop Colour:N/A Inside Western Village's frontier town

Inside Western Village's frontier town post office

and Anzac Day services were held

Standing water pools across the concrete floor of the pump hall basement at West Ryde Pumping Station

the faded yellow bay markings still legible beneath years of neglect

and a green-painted gantry staircase running along the left

Rear Workshop Colour:N/A Inside Western Village's frontier townHundreds of pale blue shoe lasts cover the concrete floor of the rear workshop at the Northcote Shoe Factory, pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations. The purpose built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s, before the broader collapse of Melbourne's footwear industry shuttered it for good. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.