Machine Shop Garden demolition Jolly Knight Motel at New

Jolly Knight Motel at New South Wales

verandah collapsed and corrugated iron lifting from the roofline

Small chairs and desks sit under a layer of dust inside the former school at Nichitsu Mining Village

their paint peeling back through layers under a wide rural sky

sits empty

Machine Shop Garden demolition Jolly Knight Motel at NewAn unroofed court within the machine shop at Elrington Colliery, where ferns have taken hold in the only unpaved ground. The machine shop sat alongside the electrical workshop and compressor room in the main workshop building, part of the surface infrastructure BHP Collieries built to support underground operations from 1930 until the mine's closure in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.