Basement nothhcote the Federation face brick slowly

the Federation face brick slowly surrendering to decades without maintenance

remote bushland pressing in on all sides

Dust coats a desk and loose paperwork inside the supervisor's office at Portland Cement Works

their brass fittings long oxidised

miners collected their assigned lamp here before descending 363 metres to the Main Greta Seam

Basement nothhcote the Federation face brick slowlyA coiled rope hangs from a brick column in the basement of the administration building at Awaba Colliery, where an overturned office chair sits on a desk and long shadows cross the concrete floor. The surface pit top at Awaba operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in March 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.