Machine Shop meters Boiler House Basement at Morwell

Boiler House Basement at Morwell

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

built by BHP Collieries to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks

and LARC amphibious vehicles

Coal production ran from 1930 until December 1962

Machine Shop meters Boiler House Basement at MorwellA tool rack on the wall of the machine shop at Elrington Colliery, Abernethy. The shop sat within the main workshop building alongside the electrical workshop and compressor room, the whole space served by a 15 tonne overhead electric crane running its full length. BHP Collieries built this infrastructure to keep a mine designed for 3,000 tonnes a day running. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.