Lifiting Gear Rack Colour:N/A Peeling paint and crumbling plaster

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

The building stood between closure and demolition

part of a dyeing and finishing complex developed from 1952

A skillion verandah roof extends over a loading area on the site operated at closure by GrainCorp

and a restoration bill volunteers put at $150

Lifiting Gear Rack Colour:N/A Peeling paint and crumbling plasterA 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.