Rear Workshop window Dust covers the keys

Dust covers the keys

A ballast truck sits abandoned on the tracks at Bombala Railway Station

Administration Foyer at Rozelle

A timber cottage sits at the edge of the overgrown grounds of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium

Rear Workshop window Dust covers the keysHundreds of pale blue shoe lasts cover the concrete floor of the rear workshop at the Northcote Shoe Factory, pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations. The purpose built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s, before the broader collapse of Melbourne's footwear industry shuttered it for good. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.