Calf door frame Penrith Valley Inn at New

Penrith Valley Inn at New South Wales

SCBA testing and refilling was standard safety practice at a colliery with documented recurring problems with underground gas accumulations

a stockmen's hut sits in the high country of the Snowy Mountains

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

The huts were built in 1927 from timber hand-split on the property

Calf door frame Penrith Valley Inn at NewA calf on paddock land adjoining the former Elrington Colliery site near Abernethy, in the Hunter Valley. The mine closed in December 1962 after 32 years of coal production, and the surrounding land has been farmed since. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.