Lifiting Gear Rack Colour:N/A Part of the Woolla series

Part of the Woolla series

The building stood between closure and demolition

and a restoration bill volunteers put at $150

Peeling paint and crumbling plaster on the walls of Female Ward 9 and 10 inside Callan Park's Kirkbride Complex

Lifiting Gear Rack Colour:N/A Part of the Woolla seriesA pegboard on the left wall still holds the outline of hooks and a few pieces of lifting gear, while a pedestal grinder base sits empty to the right. Two red safety signs and graffiti spelling "Jehovah" in red and black run across the wooden planking above. Awaba Colliery operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.