Workshop Across the Field beam Hand Basin at Rozelle

Hand Basin at Rozelle

where winters are hard

Paint peels from the walls in broad strips

their surfaces streaked with rust from decades of raw material storage

built by the Country Roads Board and opened 20 December 1935

Workshop Across the Field beam Hand Basin at RozelleThe 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.