Subject: View of water tanks. The development of the South Maitland coal fields led to the establishment of an entire community based on the townships of Cessnock and Kurri Kurri.
Photographer: G Ashley
Copyright owner: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Date: 01/07/2020

Subject: In 1913 the first commercial coal production took place. The mine's main shaft was 22 feet in diameter and bricked from top to bottom and has been described as incomparible with any other in the country, even in it's final days.
Photographer: No Author
Copyright owner: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Date: 01/07/2020

Subject: Administration Building. Construction on the Colliery commenced in 1908. Brown spent large sums to ensure that his mining plant, colliery railways, steamships and engineering works were substantially built and in the forefront of technological development
Photographer: N Malnic
Copyright owner: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Date: 12/02/1982