Main Engine House Windows parramatta a stockmen's hut sits in

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

The two structures on the site were built in 1934 and 1955

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

Both structures formed the core of the surface complex BHP Collieries built near Abernethy to supply coal to its Newcastle steelworks

The machine was part of the Purnell Shoe Company's Arthurton Road operation

Main Engine House Windows parramatta a stockmen's hut sits inThe side wall of the main engine house at Elrington Colliery, its window openings long stripped of glazing, with a metal fire escape running the full height of the facade. BHP Collieries built the engine house as the centrepiece of the surface complex between 1925 and 1930, when coal production commenced. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.