Storeroom Colour:Black Heater at New South Wales

Heater at New South Wales

A cracked plastic power point

its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades

These amenities served the workers who kept the furnaces running across more than a century of glass manufacturing on the site

falling across a concrete floor and a timber bench

Storeroom Colour:Black Heater at New South WalesMetal shelving units stretch back through the upper storage floor at Awaba Colliery, their bays cleared of the parts and consumables that once stocked them. A single wooden clad unit breaks the run of bare steel along the right hand wall. Light falls through skylights in the corrugated roof, picking out water stains on the concrete wall and the dark patterns worn into the timber floorboards below. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.