Shelving wool sustaining an entire company town

sustaining an entire company town through most of the twentieth century

Two bare bulbs hang from the deep red ceiling

rust tracking down the bowl from the cistern above

its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure

and ice cream for a national supply chain

Shelving wool sustaining an entire company townRust streaked metal shelving lines both sides of a narrow storeroom aisle, terminating at a corrugated metal wall. The floorboards beneath are darkened and warped from water ingress. A partially legible sign on the left unit shows fragments including '000' and 'FIR RIG E', its full message worn past reading. Awaba Colliery operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.