Pay Office Size:M Basement Emergency Airlock at Lucas

Basement Emergency Airlock at Lucas Heights

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The Powerhouse dates to around 1902 and was extended and modified repeatedly across the operational period

light cutting through broken windows to reveal what the bakery left behind

Pay Office Size:M Basement Emergency Airlock at LucasThe pay office at Elrington Colliery, its venetian blinds broken and surfaces peeling, is where underground workers collected their wages across the mine's 32 years of production. Operated by BHP Collieries Proprietary Ltd to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks, the colliery closed in December 1962 with approximately 90 men affected. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.