Document Storage showcase its keys fused and blackened

its keys fused and blackened by fire

rust stains the basins

Dust and stillness replaced the 65-foot oven and six thousand dozen rolls an hour

revealed by raking sunlight on a crumbling interior wall

a structure once integral to moving materials across the site

Document Storage showcase its keys fused and blackenedA former shower room at Awaba Colliery, its original shower heads still fixed to the tiled back wall, repurposed for document storage after mining ceased in 2012. Metal shelving on both sides holds stacks of paper and cardboard boxes, a green plastic bag resting beside a handwritten labelled box on the right. The cracked white tiles and grime covered floor record the years between the mine's closure and this photograph. Part of the Awaba Colliery