Pay and Managers Office Entrance Size:L The signage advertising Yubari melon

The signage advertising Yubari melon remains bright against a flat grey sky

replacing bark and split-timber shingles across NSW pastoral country

lifting dust motes through the air and picking out the outlines of forgotten machinery and tools

This was the gateway to a company town built deep in the upper Nakatsugawa valley by Nitchitsu Co

Pay and Managers Office Entrance Size:L The signage advertising Yubari melonThe entrance to the pay and manager's office at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. This building housed the mine's administrative operations, including the pay office where underground workers collected wages. BHP operated the colliery from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.