Stickers stove heater with massive hardwood beams crossing

with massive hardwood beams crossing the ceiling above and worn timber planks underfoot

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

paper over the surrounding wall long after the projector last ran

Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891

supplying coal to the Newcastle steelworks

Stickers stove heater with massive hardwood beams crossingDecades of stickers coat the storeman's office windows at Awaba Colliery, brand labels for Ingersoll Rand, Exide, and Superfilter still legible against backlit glass. A bright rectangle of light falls on the wall below, thrown by the same windows that once looked out over a working pit top. The mine ran from 1947 to 2012, when the Great Northern Seam finally ran out. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.