Nurse Call Button Colour:Raw forgotten machinery sitting dormant in

forgotten machinery sitting dormant in the dust beyond the landing

British-built by Mirrlees

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

paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips where decades of use have worked loose

manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down

Nurse Call Button Colour:Raw forgotten machinery sitting dormant inA worn nurse call button fixed to a decaying wall inside one of the wards at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, Wentworth Falls. The sanitorium operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999, serving first as a tuberculosis facility for male patients and later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill. Part of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium series.