Magpie lens flare paint peeling in thick sheets

paint peeling in thick sheets from the surface around them

Heavy machinery crowds the blower room of the Mungo Scott Flour Mill

which operated continuously from 1903 until May 1999

A hand-painted sign for the Rodeo Coffee Shop hangs above a dusty entrance

Control Room Cross View at Rozelle

Magpie lens flare paint peeling in thick sheetsA magpie surveys the overgrown grounds of Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve from a stretch of weathered concrete, unhurried and unbothered. The depot ran for 102 years as the Royal Australian Navy's primary armament storage and distribution facility on the Parramatta River, handling everything from gunpowder to torpedoes. These days the magpies have the run of it. Part of the Newington Armory series.