Nature Always Finds a Way doctor decaying reagents and glassware sitting

decaying reagents and glassware sitting exactly where a student last placed them

and hydraulic fittings crowd the front face of an industrial shoe-lasting machine

layer upon layer of faded paper

a windowed lean-to and a pair of water tanks standing to the right

The depot ran for 102 years as the Royal Australian Navy's primary armament storage and distribution facility on the Parramatta River

Nature Always Finds a Way doctor decaying reagents and glassware sittingA plant pushing through the concrete floor of one of the former colliery workshop buildings at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. The workshops have been in continuous industrial use since June 1964, when BHP opened Elrington Engineering Pty Ltd on the site after the mine closed in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.