Drawing Desk Type:Acrylic A dust-covered sofa sits in

A dust-covered sofa sits in one of Seika Dormitory's vacated rooms

and the surrounding working-class community for more than five decades

and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

Light falls through the opening and crosses bare floor

Drawing Desk Type:Acrylic A dust-covered sofa sits inA drawing desk sits beside a doorway in the pay office at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy, NSW. This is where underground workers lined up to collect their wages. BHP Collieries operated the mine from 1930 until December 1962, when approximately 90 men were affected by the closure. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.