Magazine Hatch vents Quarrying at Hornsby ran from

Quarrying at Hornsby ran from around 1905 until 2002

a communal structure that housed itinerant shearers during the wool season

Post-WWII surplus Nissen huts found a second life across the Australian countryside as farm buildings

The school ran from its North Parramatta campus from 1958

The structures belong to the company-town grid that Nitchitsu Co

Magazine Hatch vents Quarrying at Hornsby ran fromRust blooms across the heavy steel door of a magazine hatch at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering. The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward, each detail designed around the possibility of accidental detonation. Part of the Newington Armory series.