Stickers stove heater the track bed lost beneath

the track bed lost beneath years of growth

supplying coal to the Newcastle steelworks

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

with massive hardwood beams crossing the ceiling above and worn timber planks underfoot

photographed in 2015 before demolition

Stickers stove heater the track bed lost beneathDecades of stickers coat the storeman's office windows at Awaba Colliery, brand labels for Ingersoll Rand, Exide, and Superfilter still legible against backlit glass. A bright rectangle of light falls on the wall below, thrown by the same windows that once looked out over a working pit top. The mine ran from 1947 to 2012, when the Great Northern Seam finally ran out. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.