These are parts of the Coats Pattern Mill in Launceston, Tasmania. It is only a head office building now, while the rest is leased out to other odd business concerns like 'Rags R Us'.
Walking around the buildings is like stepping back in time to a workplace that made no allowances for OH&S or even general comfort. The spaces come in only two sizes; dingy, dark and dank and vast, cold and echoing. All added electrical fittings are external while the plumbing, of which there is much, is also entirely external. A fascinating place.
Also note the odd lack of symmetry on the brick building facade' This was possibly a bold architectural statement in it's day.
It's a place I want to go back to and get more fine detail of and will be down there in a month, and looking forward to it.
Trevor
