Laboratory Tap basement incongruous remnant inside a building

incongruous remnant inside a building that operated as a flour mill from June 1922 until 2009

trees visible through the broken panes beyond

one of a wave of inner-Melbourne manufacturers that didn't survive tariff reductions and cheap imports

This sub-basement level once supported the engine house that

Laboratory Tap basement incongruous remnant inside a buildingA single laboratory tap extends from a tiled wall, its surface marked by corrosion from years of exposure. Below it, a ceramic sink bowl carries dark stains built up over decades of student use. The fixture sat in one of the classroom blocks at Macquarie Boys Technology High School in Rydalmere, a post war government campus that operated from 1957 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.