Calf door frame producing vessels ranging from leisure

producing vessels ranging from leisure cruisers to wartime naval craft

The settlement was built by the Nichitsu mining company to house the workforce of Chichibu Mine

The huts were built in 1927 from timber hand-split on the property

The pay office at Elrington Colliery

with the main workshop building's gantry crane visible in the distance

Calf door frame producing vessels ranging from leisureA calf on paddock land adjoining the former Elrington Colliery site near Abernethy, in the Hunter Valley. The mine closed in December 1962 after 32 years of coal production, and the surrounding land has been farmed since. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.