Lamp Cabin and Washhouse Colour:White Lars Halvorsen Sons built 1

Lars Halvorsen Sons built 1

has long since shifted from home to agricultural shed

political flyers plastered across the ground-floor window below

now stores hay bales on a rural New South Wales property

Part of the Hornsby Quarry series

Lamp Cabin and Washhouse Colour:White Lars Halvorsen Sons built 1The lamp cabin and bathhouse at Elrington Colliery, the surface welfare buildings BHP built for the mine's workforce. Both structures sat at the pit top, where men collected and returned their lamps at the start and end of every shift. Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy in the Hunter Valley, produced coal for BHP's Newcastle steelworks from 1930 until its closure in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.