Workshop Across the Field checkerboard floor A single window draws grey

A single window draws grey light across the interior

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

Vertical Conveyors at Ashio

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

Mail Slot at Big Hill

Workshop Across the Field checkerboard floor A single window draws greyThe 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.