Workshop Across the Field beam Kitchen at Pyrmont

Kitchen at Pyrmont

whitewashed brick walls behind it and sliding timber doors standing open to flat afternoon light

Oasis Resort at New South Wales

972 before the last mine closed in 1990

built by the Country Roads Board and opened 20 December 1935

Workshop Across the Field beam Kitchen at PyrmontThe 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.