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MMBW Brooklyn Pumping Station
Location87 Millers Road BROOKLYN, HOBSONS BAY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The MMBW Brooklyn Pumping Station complex, comprising the Pumping Station, Screenwell buildings and Penstock Well building designed by Leslie M Perrott & Partners in association with the MMBW and constructed in 1964, at 87 Millers Road, Brooklyn. The MMBW Brooklyn Pumping Station complex is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay. Historically, it is significant for its strong associations with the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works as one of the biggest projects undertaken by the MMBW since the 1890s. It demonstrates the growth of Melbourne in the post war era. (AHC criteria A4 and H1) Aesthetically, the pumping station is significant as a rare example of an architect-designed postwar industrial building, which is notable for the distinctive roof form that sought to follow recognised contemporary architectural trends. (AHC criteria E1 and F1)
Group
Utilities - Sewerage
Category
Sewage Pump House/Pumping Station