Workshop Bay animatronic 000 people at its peak

000 people at its peak

Built to service the mine's underground workforce

Light falls from above onto stripped infrastructure

The saloon inside Western Village sits as it was left when the park closed on 7 December 2006: empty bottles still on the shelves

Workshop Bay animatronic 000 people at its peakEmpty shelving units line the rendered wall of a workshop bay at Awaba Colliery, beneath exposed pipes and a faded fire extinguisher sign. The workshop was part of the surface infrastructure at 242 Wilton Road that supported underground mining operations from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.