Showers Size:M A Yamaha VK540 snowmobile sits

A Yamaha VK540 snowmobile sits on bare gravel outside a low prefabricated building in Yubari

broken tiles scattered across the floor beneath

the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock

The building is part of a two-structure complex that served the Big Hill community from 1 November 1869 until 1945

Showers Size:M A Yamaha VK540 snowmobile sitsRows of shower heads line the washhouse at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy in the Hunter Valley. Underground workers on the Main Greta Seam came up from 363 metres coated in coal dust; this is where the shift ended. The mine closed in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.