Lamp Cabin and Washhouse Type:Framed sunlight cutting through grimy windows

sunlight cutting through grimy windows onto a floor that once moved millions of bottles a year

their decaying wooden components lost among the surrounding debris

Faded paint peels from rendered brick at the front corner of the Braidwood Hotel

dust settled into every grain

Lamp Cabin and Washhouse Type:Framed sunlight cutting through grimy windowsThe lamp cabin and bathhouse at Elrington Colliery, the surface welfare buildings BHP built for the mine's workforce. Both structures sat at the pit top, where men collected and returned their lamps at the start and end of every shift. Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy in the Hunter Valley, produced coal for BHP's Newcastle steelworks from 1930 until its closure in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.