Washhouse Rear Size:S A concrete platform edges into

A concrete platform edges into encroaching scrub at Waratah Park

picking out the room's slow deterioration

moss and native plants working into its surfaces

faded brown and layered in years of accumulation

leaving the campus and its contents to deteriorate across nine years of vacancy

Washhouse Rear Size:S A concrete platform edges intoThe rear brick wall of the washhouse at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. This building served as the shower and change room block where underground workers cleaned up after shifts on the Main Greta Seam, 1,190 ft below the surface. The colliery operated from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.