Stickers stove heater A disused spray booth inside

A disused spray booth inside the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

she remains berthed at Balls Head Bay

Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891

photographed in 2015 before demolition

paper over the surrounding wall long after the projector last ran

Stickers stove heater A disused spray booth insideDecades of stickers coat the storeman's office windows at Awaba Colliery, brand labels for Ingersoll Rand, Exide, and Superfilter still legible against backlit glass. A bright rectangle of light falls on the wall below, thrown by the same windows that once looked out over a working pit top. The mine ran from 1947 to 2012, when the Great Northern Seam finally ran out. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.