Control Room basement The building was constructed in

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

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

its paint peeling in long strips under a flat grey sky

Natural light now falls through high windows onto bare floor and column bases

Control Room basement The building was constructed inRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.