Shelving hand wheel now overgrown and returning to

now overgrown and returning to scrub

a spray-painted face staring outward from the partition wall

which served the district from 1 November 1869 until 1945

Timber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain

Lithgow Valley Motel

Shelving hand wheel now overgrown and returning toRust streaked metal shelving lines both sides of a narrow storeroom aisle, terminating at a corrugated metal wall. The floorboards beneath are darkened and warped from water ingress. A partially legible sign on the left unit shows fragments including '000' and 'FIR RIG E', its full message worn past reading. Awaba Colliery operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.