Drawing Desk Type:Acrylic and operated for 27 years

and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

A corrugated iron ceiling

Light falls through the opening and crosses bare floor

peeling backboards

structures that sit outside formal heritage protection with collapse as their only trajectory

Drawing Desk Type:Acrylic and operated for 27 yearsA drawing desk sits beside a doorway in the pay office at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy, NSW. This is where underground workers lined up to collect their wages. BHP Collieries operated the mine from 1930 until December 1962, when approximately 90 men were affected by the closure. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.