Peeling Paint Colour:N/A The changing area of the

The changing area of the Elrington Colliery washhouse

picking out the remnants of a community that once housed an entire industrial workforce

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

BHP ran the colliery from 1930 until December 1962

Interurban Passenger Seating at Eveleigh

Peeling Paint Colour:N/A The changing area of thePaint peeling from a wall inside the engine house at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy, NSW. The negative impressions left in the surface mirror the exact shapes of the sections that have come away. BHP Collieries built this surface infrastructure between 1925 and 1930 to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.