Workshop Shelves Size:M Six years after closure

Six years after closure

Down the Middle at New South Wales

upper-floor windows empty against the sky

approximately 275 men worked underground at this BHP-owned colliery

Coal production ran from 1930 until December 1962

Workshop Shelves Size:M Six years after closureFaint rail tracks run the length of a concrete floor toward a corrugated metal doorway at Awaba Colliery, with tiers of rusted workshop shelving lining the right hand wall. A white cup sits on the floor in the foreground, and scattered industrial debris occupies the lower shelves. Overhead, a crane structure bears the name "Morison Bearby" in bold lettering. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.