Breakers and Compressor Room palms Sheds like this one were

Sheds like this one were the working heart of any wool-producing station

Stageside Bar at Pyrmont

The dwelling is one of the vernacular slab and timber homesteads photographed across rural New South Wales

now standing largely empty

coated in years of dust

Breakers and Compressor Room palms Sheds like this one wereThe electrical distribution breaker panels at Elrington Colliery, with an adjacent lean to housing the air compressor that kept the mine's underground workings supplied with pressure. The workshop complex formed the operational heart of BHP's surface infrastructure at the colliery near Abernethy. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.