Office Stairs inside City Centre at Lake Macquarie

City Centre at Lake Macquarie

where rows of beds once lined the room under open-sided pavilion construction designed to flood the space with air

This building served as the shower and change-room block where underground workers cleaned up after shifts on the Main Greta Seam

Exit Walkway at Waterfall

vegetation pressing in on both sides

Office Stairs inside City Centre at Lake MacquarieConcrete stairs descend from the pay office level at Elrington Colliery to the main yard below, the same route underground workers climbed after surfacing from the Main Greta Seam, 363 metres below ground. BHP Collieries Proprietary Ltd operated the mine from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.