Document Storage showcase served as a family dwelling

served as a family dwelling before being converted to agricultural use

light cutting through a space that once served school children and

revealed by raking sunlight on a crumbling interior wall

its keys fused and blackened by fire

rust stains the basins

Document Storage showcase served as a family dwellingA former shower room at Awaba Colliery, its original shower heads still fixed to the tiled back wall, repurposed for document storage after mining ceased in 2012. Metal shelving on both sides holds stacks of paper and cardboard boxes, a green plastic bag resting beside a handwritten labelled box on the right. The cracked white tiles and grime covered floor record the years between the mine's closure and this photograph. Part of the Awaba Colliery