Hand Water Pump Size:M Building 137 at Newington Armament

Building 137 at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve stands with its windows open to the weather

BHP Collieries built this surface infrastructure between 1925 and 1930 to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks

with a timber farm gate standing to the right

fire-hazard signage remains on the adjacent wall

its metal frame corroded and its surface thick with dust

Hand Water Pump Size:M Building 137 at Newington ArmamentA cast iron hand pump stands on a square pedestal in a paddock at Jembaicumbene, a galvanised bucket hung from its spout and tall grass grown up around its base. The property draws water from spring fed wells and a millpond that have supplied the land since the 1830s, when Roberts and Badgery established their pastoral estate on this stretch of granite country above Jembaicumbene Creek. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.