Change Room Leaves Type:Unframed Sunlight pushes through gaps in

Sunlight pushes through gaps in the structure and lands hard on worn steps and crumbling concrete surrounds

Timber fence rails run along the front

Forgotten papers remain where they were left

cardboard boxes flattened across the floor and an office chair left upright among the scattered debris

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

Change Room Leaves Type:Unframed Sunlight pushes through gaps inThe 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.