Dispatch Office condenser Basic oxygen steelmaking was introduced

Basic oxygen steelmaking was introduced at the steelworks in 1972 in 200/250 tonne vessels

pendant lights hang loose overhead

The wildlife park operated here from January 1970 until the business failed in 2006

personal effects scattered across the floor

Graffiti covers the far wall

Dispatch Office condenser Basic oxygen steelmaking was introducedThe dispatch office at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood sits as it was left: papers across the floor, an overturned chair, a desk stripped of purpose. This room managed the outward movement of a factory that, by 1908, was producing 27 million bottles a year. Part of the O I Glass series.