Showers fenceshrubs now largely silent since station

now largely silent since station consolidation reduced the sheep numbers that once kept them busy

layers of newspaper pressed into the surface as draught insulation against the Southern Tablelands winters

remote bushland pressing in on all sides

the glowing orange liquid throwing dense clouds of steam as it hits cooler air

and the belongings remained after them

Showers fenceshrubs now largely silent since stationRows 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.