Tesselated Colour:White when BHP closed the mine

when BHP closed the mine with large reserves still in the ground

Sunlight reaches the first level of Seika Dormitory through broken windows

Steel pipes and concrete forms rise between two of the Portland Cement Works Precinct's cylindrical silos

weeds splitting through the cracked path

Tesselated Colour:White when BHP closed the mineGeometric encaustic tiles cover the floor of a room in the novitiate building at the former Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds. The intricate tessellated pattern, intact beneath years of dust and neglect, sits within a complex built in stages from 1889 and operated by the Little Company of Mary for nearly a century. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.