Carpentry Workshop Garden movie signboards The surrounding asphalt has cracked

The surrounding asphalt has cracked apart

Rows of beehives sit in open paddock on land that once carried the rail spur and surface workings of Elrington Colliery

a city that once supported over 100

The Ogurawa settlement housed the Chichibu Mine workforce from the 1940s until the last resident left in September 2006

Buildings like this housed the itinerant shearers and station hands who kept the Monaro's wool industry moving across the pastoral boom years of the 1870s to 1890s

Carpentry Workshop Garden movie signboards The surrounding asphalt has crackedA small unroofed court within the workshop building at Elrington Colliery, where ferns have colonised the one patch of bare ground not covered by concrete. The workshop complex was built as part of BHP's surface infrastructure, completed between 1925 and 1930. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.