Production Packaging Room sky Ashio Copper Mine at Ashio

Ashio Copper Mine at Ashio

The site opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium on Kings Tableland and operated continuously for 96 years

Paint peels from every surface and the timber shows years of weathering since the park closed on 7 December 2006

remain on private pastoral land

Production Packaging Room sky Ashio Copper Mine at AshioConveyor belts, machinery, and empty shelves sit under a coat of dust in the production packaging room of Peters Creameries Pty Ltd's Chatham factory. Built in 1939 as the Manning Valley's largest employer, the plant ran dairy production across multiple product lines until its closure in the late 1990s. Part of the Peters' Ice Cream Factory series.