Lamp Cabin Windows Size:S patterned carpet covers the floor

patterned carpet covers the floor of a guest room in the former Family School Fureai

rust streaking down its faded plastic in long ochre lines

Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for £1 per acre

and the engine house it anchors has never stopped pumping since

Lamp Cabin Windows Size:S patterned carpet covers the floorNumbered safety lamps lined up inside the lamp cabin at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. Before each shift, miners collected their assigned lamp here before descending 363 metres to the Main Greta Seam. The colliery operated from 1930 until December 1962, purpose built to supply coking coal to BHP's Newcastle steelworks. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.