Factory Laneway firehose personal belongings still in place

personal belongings still in place years after residents were displaced

A metal walkway with timber steps follows the left wall toward a closed roller door

BHP Collieries built this surface infrastructure between 1925 and 1930 to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks

their rows tracking the path vessels once took into the Parramatta River

Factory Laneway firehose personal belongings still in placeA gravel laneway cuts between a two storey clad building with blue framed windows and a brick warehouse, steel pipe gantries and a yellow caged ladder rising to one side. The laneway ran through the former Davies Coop Bradmill factory at Yarraville, a cotton dyeing and finishing complex developed from 1952 and later one of Australia's principal denim manufacturing sites. Part of the Bradmill Denim series.