Control Room basement Empty tables and chairs occupy

Empty tables and chairs occupy the main dining area of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Dust coats every surface

Built in 1916 across Nattai Creek from the original malthouses

The building was constructed in 1967 as a purpose-built television set for the production of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Natural light now falls through high windows onto bare floor and column bases

Control Room basement Empty tables and chairs occupyRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.