Radio workshop was producing 27 million bottles

was producing 27 million bottles a year

used for tracing radio beacon signals from coastal stations

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

The radio direction finder receiver on the bridge of MV Cape Don

with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests

Radio workshop was producing 27 million bottlesAn old radio sits on a grimy workbench inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory, its metal casing thick with rust. It would have lived in the smoko area, the one corner of a working factory where the machinery stopped and the people were just people. The factory on Arthurton Road operated under the Purnell Shoe Company name by the 1970s, manufacturing footwear until cheap imports closed it down. Part of the Northcote Shoe Factory series.