Steel Frame Type:Unframed timber boards worn back to

timber boards worn back to bare grain

Blue Morning Ranges at Australia and Japan

when it closed for good

Faded labels remain on empty bottles

which opened in 1975 and closed just eight years later as the coal economy emptied the city of its families

Steel Frame Type:Unframed timber boards worn back toA rusted steel frame lies in the paddock beside the former manager's office at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy in the Hunter Valley. The mine closed in December 1962; BHP opened an engineering works on the same site in June 1964. Surface equipment left in the surrounding paddocks has been deteriorating ever since. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.