Collage Size:M Part of the Bradmill Denim

Part of the Bradmill Denim series

recording significant dates and names from the facility's operational history

133 at Sydney

operating as Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports contracted Melbourne's footwear industry

Collage Size:M Part of the Bradmill DenimA dense collage of photographs from Awaba Colliery's working life covers an entire wall: workers in hard hats, group shots at the pit, a white NSW Mine station wagon, and a red semi trailer hauling heavy equipment. The short shorts on some crew members place these images firmly in the earlier decades of a mine that ran from 1947 until coal reserves were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.