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

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

A single laboratory tap extends from a tiled wall

Vines advance across the weathered timber facade of Big Hill Post Office

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

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.