Location: Metro Adelaide
Exploring the Boiler House
This spot had been on our radar for several years…
It was built in the 1960s when the City of Adelaide was going through an era of growth and change.
We hoped, being over 50 years old, we’d find old-fashioned vintage control panels, buttons, levers, and fixtures.
It did not disappoint.
The Layout
Most of the space was taken up by water treatment infrastructure with a large circular V-shaped tank at its core.
Off to one side were three massive gas-powered boilers all lined up in a row. These were surrounded by numerous pipes both leaving and entering the furnaces.
At the center of the room, a large electrical switchboard containing gauges and instrumental panels displaying steam pressures, pump pressures, and water storage tank levels.
Nearby sat a large control panel containing diesel pump controls, water softener controls, filter backwashing controls, chemical dosing controls, uptime counters, dosing counters, backup fuel controls, and alarm warning lights—all from the 1960s.
The Boiler House is another piece of Adelaide‘s hidden industrial story—a wonderful time capsule from Adelaide‘s hidden history—and a hard-to-access location we were thrilled to explore.
