Basement Exit battery room Operators passed through several hands

Operators passed through several hands over nearly a century before CSR Construction Materials ran the final years

Partition walls are mid-demolition

Buckets and brooms stand where a cleaner left them

A grease gun lies where someone left it

Basement Exit battery room Operators passed through several handsThe basement exit of the ABBCO Bakery sits choked with rubble, peeling paint, and forgotten machinery, light filtering through the grime to what lies below. The Leichhardt factory had been described in 1973 as the biggest independent bakery in Australia, producing around 100 bread varieties from a 65 foot oven before the building was abandoned and ultimately demolished. Part of the ABBCO Bakery series.