Plough dragon inn later as a geriatric hospital

later as a geriatric hospital

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

Broken and skewed window panes let in the only light that reaches this room now

and milk powder for a national supply chain fed by Manning River cream boats

Peeling paint and crumbling plaster expose the south east corner of Mountain View Homestead and General Store

Plough dragon inn later as a geriatric hospitalA rusted farm plough sitting on open grazing land near the former Elrington Colliery site, outside Abernethy. The land surrounding the closed colliery has been used for agriculture since the mine shut in December 1962. Where coal once moved underground through two concrete lined shafts to supply BHP's Newcastle steelworks, the surface has long since returned to pasture. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.