Carpentry Workshop Garden movie signboards Buildings like this housed the

Buildings like this housed the itinerant shearers and station hands who kept the Monaro's wool industry moving across the pastoral boom years of the 1870s to 1890s

a city that once supported over 100

Timber weatherboard construction of this kind is characteristic of the later selector cottages built across southern New South Wales from the 1880s onward

light pressing through gaps in the aged roof to fall across the worn floor below

The works closed permanently in August 1988

Carpentry Workshop Garden movie signboards Buildings like this housed theA small unroofed court within the workshop building at Elrington Colliery, where ferns have colonised the one patch of bare ground not covered by concrete. The workshop complex was built as part of BHP's surface infrastructure, completed between 1925 and 1930. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.