Collage Colour:White The Matsuya building stands on

The Matsuya building stands on a quiet Yubari street

while grass and weeds push in from the perimeter

The side wall of the main engine house at Elrington Colliery

twin sash windows and a barred opening set into the upper wall

Collage Colour:White The Matsuya building stands onA dense collage of photographs from Awaba Colliery's working life covers an entire wall: workers in hard hats, group shots at the pit, a white NSW Mine station wagon, and a red semi trailer hauling heavy equipment. The short shorts on some crew members place these images firmly in the earlier decades of a mine that ran from 1947 until coal reserves were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.