Upstairs Workshop backlight Switch House Workbench at Rozelle

Switch House Workbench at Rozelle

the kitchen standing exactly as it was left after the July 2007 fire displaced the dormitory's last residents

The machine was part of the Purnell Shoe Company's Arthurton Road operation

the complex operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

Machinery like this moved grain through the mill's gravity-fed system

Upstairs Workshop backlight Switch House Workbench at RozelleWorkbenches and forgotten tools sit under a layer of dust in the upstairs workshop of the Northcote Shoe Factory, light pushing through grimy windows to fall across what was left behind. The building on the corner of Arthurton Road and Helen Street was purpose built in 1926, replacing two earlier premises on Eastment Street where the operation began. By the 1970s the factory was trading as Purnell Shoe Company. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory