Changeroom Handwash Basins honkan A row of empty desks

A row of empty desks faces a wall of grimy windows

Rusting machinery and scattered debris across a concrete floor

Turbine Hall A Station Windows at Wangi Wangi

Structures like this one represent the long arc of rural settlement across the Snowy Monaro and Hunter Valley

Changeroom Handwash Basins honkan A row of empty desksHandwash basins in the washhouse at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. These facilities served the underground workforce returning from the Main Greta Seam, 363 metres below the surface, coated in coal dust. The colliery operated from 1930 until December 1962, when BHP closed it citing persistent operating losses. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.