Radio workshop an overturned chair and a

an overturned chair and a long service counter sit exactly where they were left when the park closed in December 2006

and debris scatters the floor

The building was constructed in 1967 as a purpose-built television set for Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

Radio workshop an overturned chair and aAn 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.