Field Lamp Type:Unframed Above a doorway

Above a doorway

A room inside Halvorsen's Boat Yard at Putney glows with faded blue paint

the scale of the operation filling the frame

open to the sky on all sides

it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region

Field Lamp Type:Unframed Above a doorwayA mercury vapour lamp stands in the yard between the workshop building and the main engine house at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. It lit the outdoor space where workers moved between the principal surface buildings. BHP ran the mine from 1930 until December 1962, supplying coal to the Newcastle steelworks. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.