Factory Floor Size:XL long after Purnell Shoe Company

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

supplying malted barley to Tooth and Co from 1905 until production ceased in 1980

The dispatch office at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood sits as it was left: papers across the floor

Balmain Leagues Club served as the social heartbeat of Tigers country until its closure on 28 March 2010

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

Factory Floor Size:XL long after Purnell Shoe CompanyThe factory floor of the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood stretches into the distance, rusting machinery still positioned at its stations under light falling from high industrial windows. Glass production ran here from 1890 until the plant closed in January 2012, over 100 years under four corporate identities. Part of the O I Glass series.