Stairs Down rounded its label faded and contents

its label faded and contents untouched

where the ship's deck and engineering officers relaxed between watches

remnants of the building's later life as a multi-tenant facility after Automatic Totalisators Limited ceased manufacturing

debris and a rusted pipe cover the floor

A solitary pot sits on a rusted stove beneath a grimy window

Stairs Down rounded its label faded and contentsConcrete stairs descend into the quarry void at Hornsby Quarry, water pooling at the base and throwing light back up the shaft. This infrastructure provided working access within a dolerite quarry that supplied blue metal for northern Sydney's roads from around 1905 until 2002. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.