Radio workshop Charge cranes were central to

Charge cranes were central to the steelmaking process

Coal Mill at Rozelle

used for tracing radio beacon signals from coastal stations

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

was producing 27 million bottles a year

Radio workshop Charge cranes were central toAn old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory, its metal casing thick with rust. It would have lived in the smoko area, the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people. The factory on Arthurton Road operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.