Collage Size:M scattered newspapers

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operating as Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports contracted Melbourne's footwear industry

running some 100 bread varieties through a 65-foot oven

a trace left behind in a building once central to the Little Company of Mary's century of care at Lewisham

Collage Size:M scattered newspapersA dense collage of photographs from Awaba Colliery's working life covers an entire wall: workers in hard hats, group shots at the pit, a white NSW Mine station wagon, and a red semi trailer hauling heavy equipment. The short shorts on some crew members place these images firmly in the earlier decades of a mine that ran from 1947 until coal reserves were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.