Showers Size:M the site once employed hundreds

the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock

A Yamaha VK540 snowmobile sits on bare gravel outside a low prefabricated building in Yubari

broken tiles scattered across the floor beneath

connected to the earlier malthouses by a light rail line and pedestrian bridge

A tap hole opens on one of Port Kembla Steelworks' basic oxygen steelmaking vessels

Showers Size:M the site once employed hundredsRows of shower heads line the washhouse at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy in the Hunter Valley. Underground workers on the Main Greta Seam came up from 363 metres coated in coal dust; this is where the shift ended. The mine closed in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.