Conveyor Drive Type:Acrylic its painted columns rusting and

its painted columns rusting and corrugated roof sheets beginning to sag

The workshop was part of the surface infrastructure at 242 Wilton Road that supported underground mining operations from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012

built on a century of coal

photographed in 2020

Conveyor Drive Type:Acrylic its painted columns rusting andA 'LOT 23' label is still fixed to the casing of a conveyor drive at Awaba Colliery, bright light cutting through a corrugated metal door at the far end and throwing the debris scattered floor into relief. The drive sat within the surface infrastructure of a drift mine that worked the Great Northern Seam from 1947 until coal reserves ran out in March 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.