Newnes Plateau, Industrial Ruins and Glow Worm Tunnel
It was to be a early rise on Saturday the 2nd of June as I was leading a group on a car camping weekend 3hrs west of Sydney at Newnes Plateau situated in the Wolgan, which has been made famous from the township of Newnes and the Shale mining Industrial ruins that has shaped its past. I met my group at 10am at the Newnes Hotel and shortly after took the short drive to the end of the road where it opens up to a rather large free camp site with Pit Toilets Only, Fantastic car ca
Abandoned Cement Works -
A major player Cement Australia, with a long history with the site was the small town of Kandos which was in support of the construction of the site in 1914. With the construction of this Cement Works, Australia Government decided that it needed its own Cement Plant which was then to end its reliance on European concrete and created a capacity for local cement production by using nearby coal and limestone reserves. The plant supplied cement for some of Sydney’s major buildin
Abandoned - Exploration of a Nursing Home...
Situated in the Southern outskirts of Sydney in a rural setting - This building in its early days was a hospital for the treatment of patients (including children) who had tuberculosis, they were not released from here until they were cured. Patients were often taken here against their will which makes me think some pretty dark horrible shit went down inside these walls. It was like a little self sufficient community here though, they did all their own farming, cooking, bakin
St John's Orphanage
The Sisters of Mercy ran the orphanage for its duration until closing in 1978. The building was designed to house up to 100 boys but that figure reached as high as 250 during the war years. As many as 2,500 boys went through the doors over the 66 years of operation. Interestingly only a very small number were orphans, the figure being around 4%. The boys were from poor families that couldn’t afford to keep them. However, the vast majority were boys from “broken” or troubled f
The Tooth's & Co Brewery - A Photographers Delight
Located in Southern Highlands, the Tooth and Co brewery closed in 1981 and consists of two large factory buildings that are pretty awesome to explore. It was one of the state’s biggest breweries, pumping out popular beers like KB Lager for decades. The second of two large fires signalled the beginning of the end for Tooth and Co’s Maltings, which closed in 1980 — and has been sitting idle and empty ever since. The time-weathered buildings have long been the playground of vand
