Change Room and Basins charge crane Wheelchair at Rozelle

Wheelchair at Rozelle

commissioned in 1921 as the largest steam-powered water pumping station in Australia

light filtering through the grime to what lies below

it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region

Change Room and Basins charge crane Wheelchair at RozelleTiled basins and overhead hooks line the change room of the Elrington Colliery washhouse, where underground workers stripped off dirty overalls before entering the shower area. The colliery ran approximately 275 men underground during the 1940s, each shift ending in this room. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.