Chemical Storage Area storage The Alleyway at Lake Macquarie

The Alleyway at Lake Macquarie

Photographed 2015

undisturbed since the school closed at the end of 2009

The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy

Chemical Storage Area storage The Alleyway at Lake MacquarieA diamond shaped Poison 6 hazard sign fixed to a chain link gate marks the entrance to the chemical storage area at Awaba Colliery, the bold warning standing against the quiet emptiness behind it. Brick walls and rough timber plank ceiling frame the passage, with empty wooden shelving lining one side and a handful of containers remaining further back. Light cuts through from a window at the far end. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.