Showers Size:M connected to the earlier malthouses

connected to the earlier malthouses by a light rail line and pedestrian bridge

the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock

The remnant boundary marks what was once a working property

Buildings like this were common across the pastoral runs of Rural New South Wales

Showers Size:M connected to the earlier malthousesRows 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.