Basement Catwalk Type:Unframed part of the self-contained community

part of the self-contained community Nitchitsu built around Chichibu Mine

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

Faint light pushes through a grimy window

An enamel refrigerator with a chrome latch and door handle stands against patterned wallpaper at Woolla

Timber steps descend from a deck at the rear of the Ranger Headquarters

Basement Catwalk Type:Unframed part of the self-contained communityA makeshift timber catwalk bridges a pit in the concrete floor of the engine house basement at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. Old conveyor rollers are stacked against the rear wall, left in place after the mine closed in December 1962. The engine house sat at the centre of BHP's surface infrastructure, completed between 1925 and 1930. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.