Washhouse Changing Area Colour:Black The room was part of

The room was part of the tourism infrastructure built after the wildlife park opened in January 1970

caught in the moment sunlight breaks through the gaps and hits the floor

Buildings like this one represent the full arc of rural settlement on the Snowy Monaro: squatter huts of the 1830s

At its peak in the 1940s

Washhouse Changing Area Colour:Black The room was part ofThe changing area of the Elrington Colliery washhouse, where underground miners came off shift and returned to the surface world. Part of a facility that served the mine's workforce across its 32 years of coal production, from 1930 until closure in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.