Main Engine House End paint A cast iron bench sits

A cast iron bench sits against the fibro wall of the waiting room at Waratah Park

and buoys for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

built by hand from split eucalypt and left standing when the land could no longer carry a family

operating the Smith Street site as the mechanical and service arm of a multi-branch North Shore dealer network

Main Engine House End paint A cast iron bench sitsThe end wall of the main engine house at Elrington Colliery, with the workshop building visible behind it. Both structures formed the core of the surface complex BHP Collieries built near Abernethy to supply coal to its Newcastle steelworks. Surface infrastructure at the site was largely complete by 1927, and coal production commenced in 1930. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.