Basement nothhcote Nature Always Finds a Way

Nature Always Finds a Way at Wangi Wangi

with dead leaves banked against the walls and a vine pushing in from outside

Dust coats a desk and loose paperwork inside the supervisor's office at Portland Cement Works

the tall grass beneath uncut

New Cement Silo at Kandos

Basement nothhcote Nature Always Finds a WayA coiled rope hangs from a brick column in the basement of the administration building at Awaba Colliery, where an overturned office chair sits on a desk and long shadows cross the concrete floor. The surface pit top at Awaba operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in March 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.