Change Room Leaves Colour:Raw A chemistry set left behind

A chemistry set left behind on a laboratory bench at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

each step layered with dust and debris from decades of disuse

BHP built the workshops as part of the surface infrastructure completed between 1925 and 1930

half-buried in dust on a shelf edged with flaking green paint

undisturbed

Change Room Leaves Colour:Raw A chemistry set left behindThe concrete floor of the washhouse change room at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy, with dead leaves banked against the walls and a vine pushing in from outside. The washhouse serviced the mine's underground workforce across its 32 years of coal production, from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.