Magazine Exterior Path Colour:Raw its lettering faded but still

its lettering faded but still legible

Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust

The building opened as Asahi Elementary School in 1975 and closed just eight years later

catching the light from a high window above

Magazine Exterior Path Colour:Raw its lettering faded but stillA concrete path runs along the exterior wall of a magazine building at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its utilitarian surface edged by vegetation pressing in from the surrounding grounds. These Federation face brick structures were built from 1897 to store gunpowder, shells, and explosives for the Royal Australian Navy, with earth banks raised around them to contain any accidental blast. Part of the Newington Armory series.