Upstairs Workshop Size:XS and economic collapse

and economic collapse

the settlement's civic heart for three decades

Pump Room at Waterfall

narrow corridor stretches through the Braidwood Hotel

000 people at its 1960 peak

Upstairs Workshop Size:XS and economic collapseWorkbenches and forgotten tools sit under a layer of dust in the upstairs workshop of the Northcote Shoe Factory, light pushing through grimy windows to fall across what was left behind. The building on the corner of Arthurton Road and Helen Street was purpose built in 1926, replacing two earlier premises on Eastment Street where the operation began. By the 1970s the factory was trading as Purnell Shoe Company. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory