Window Size:M their curved metal surfaces streaked

their curved metal surfaces streaked with rust and decades of residue

The factory and office complex

its rusted frame and peeling paint marking years of disuse

catching dust in the air above worn floorboards

converging toward a corrugated metal wall at the far end

Window Size:M their curved metal surfaces streakedA broken window in the workshop building at Elrington Colliery looks out toward the rural bushland surrounding the site near Abernethy. The workshop housed the machine shop, electrical workshop, and a 15 tonne overhead crane, the operational heart of a mine that ran from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.