Stickers stove heater she remains berthed at Balls

she remains berthed at Balls Head Bay

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

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

rust-stained from years of disuse

Stickers stove heater she remains berthed at BallsDecades 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.