Workshop Breakers Colour:Raw purpose-built to supply coking coal

purpose-built to supply coking coal to BHP's Newcastle steelworks

The north eastern corner of the Peters Creameries Pty Ltd factory at Chatham

its bolts and hinges holding firm against more than a century of weathering

the bush is quietly reasserting itself

Dust covers the desks and chairs of the teachers' office at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

Workshop Breakers Colour:Raw purpose-built to supply coking coalThe electrical distribution breaker panels that fed the overhead crane, the electrician's shop, the machine shop, and the compressor at Elrington Colliery's main workshop. BHP completed the surface complex here between 1925 and 1930, building a mine designed to deliver 3,000 tonnes of coking coal a day to the Newcastle steelworks. The workshop kept running long after the coal stopped. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.