Tyres trash Storage Block at Lucas Heights

Storage Block at Lucas Heights

partly collapsed

A red brick chimney stack rises above a corrugated iron roof oxidised to deep rust

The room served miners and their families during the settlement's peak years

Tyres trash Storage Block at Lucas HeightsA pile of tyres left on the floor of the main engine house at Elrington Colliery, the building that originally housed the winding machinery for the mine's two concrete lined shafts. Coal production ran from 1930 until December 1962, when BHP closed the colliery citing persistent operating losses. BHP then opened an engineering works on the same site in June 1964. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.