Hand Basin Size:M Basic oxygen steelmaking was introduced

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

first as a tuberculosis sanitorium and later as a geriatric facility

produced footwear under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s

stripping all internal structures

when corporate rationalisation shifted production elsewhere

Hand Basin Size:M Basic oxygen steelmaking was introducedA porcelain hand basin, rust stained from years of disuse, sits fixed to the wall inside West Ryde Pumping Station. Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891, it now stands dry. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.