Pump Hall Basement driver built after the Robertson Land

built after the Robertson Land Acts opened the Monaro to smallholders from 1861 onward

The Smith Street building served as the workshop and service centre for Sundell Holden

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

their screens and controls dulled under years of settled dust

Constructed in 1906-07 under Tooth and Co

Pump Hall Basement driver built after the Robertson LandStanding water pools across the concrete floor of the pump hall basement at West Ryde Pumping Station, where derelict machinery stands silent beneath peeling paint and shadows. This sub basement level once supported the engine house that, by 1982, had become the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.