Lamp Cabin Racks room The school closed at the

The school closed at the end of 2009 after enrolments had fallen to 220 students

The factory at Chatham opened in November 1939

constructed by Stuart Brothers of Sydney using locally sourced bricks

its surfaces stripped back by decades of damp and neglect

its platform edged by overgrown track and rust working steadily through the metalwork

Lamp Cabin Racks room The school closed at theThe safety light storage racks inside the lamp cabin at Elrington Colliery, each lamp numbered and assigned to a miner at the start of every shift. When a man came up, his lamp came back. Any lamp still on the rack when the cage stopped running told the surface crew someone was still below ground. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.