Workshop Across the Field beam BHP built this welfare infrastructure

BHP built this welfare infrastructure to service the men who worked the Main Greta Seam through the mine's three decades of production

Oasis Resort at New South Wales

The Palms Hotel at New South Wales

A rusted L-series truck sits in the sidings at Bombala Railway Station

A smaller bedroom in the abandoned Big Hill Post Office

Workshop Across the Field beam BHP built this welfare infrastructureThe main workshop building at Elrington Colliery, seen across the yard from the blacksmith shop side. The gantry crane structure rising above the roofline served a 15 tonne overhead electric crane inside. BHP Collieries operated the site from 1930 until December 1962, when the mine closed with large coal reserves still in the ground. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.