Boiler House Door Size:S Boardwalk at Lake Macquarie

Boardwalk at Lake Macquarie

A faded pool table sits inside one of Western Village's frontier-town buildings

Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320-acre gambles

years after production ceased in the facility once described as the biggest independent bakery in Australia

sitting vacant for nearly a decade before demolition in 2018

Boiler House Door Size:S Boardwalk at Lake MacquarieA rusted metal door fills the frame inside the Boiler House at Portland Cement Works, its paint peeled back to bare metal and faint light catching the uneven surface. The Boiler House was central to the works that operated continuously from 1902 until cement production ceased in November 1991. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.