Workshop Across the Field checkerboard floor Mail Slot at Big Hill

Mail Slot at Big Hill

The Smith Street building served as the workshop and service centre for Sundell Holden

The Davis family held the Deua River Valley property continuously from 1910 to 2004

where light cuts through broken windows onto a floor that once received wool

Workshop Across the Field checkerboard floor Mail Slot at Big HillThe main workshop building at Elrington Colliery, seen across the yard from the blacksmith shop side. The gantry crane structure rising above the roofline served a 15 tonne overhead electric crane inside. BHP Collieries operated the site from 1930 until December 1962, when the mine closed with large coal reserves still in the ground. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.