Breakers and Compressor Room palms the right side buckled and

the right side buckled and torn from repeated vehicle contact

Weeds push through cracked concrete and corrugated iron walls carry rust and peeling paint in layers

now standing largely empty

The dwelling is one of the vernacular slab and timber homesteads photographed across rural New South Wales

sits within a streetscape shaped as much by Hokkaido winters and a 94% population decline as by any deliberate demolition

Breakers and Compressor Room palms the right side buckled andThe electrical distribution breaker panels at Elrington Colliery, with an adjacent lean to housing the air compressor that kept the mine's underground workings supplied with pressure. The workshop complex formed the operational heart of BHP's surface infrastructure at the colliery near Abernethy. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.