Clean Room demolition 972 before the last mine

972 before the last mine closed in 1990

its drawers empty

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

A massive pot sits inside the Port Kembla Steelworks

upper-floor windows empty against the sky

Clean Room demolition 972 before the last mineWhite tiles and stainless steel surfaces line the sterile preparation room of the Lewisham Hospital complex, now coated in dust and showing the slow work of decay. This clinical space sat within a hospital that operated from 1889 until around 1988 under the Little Company of Mary. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.