On my day off from walking in the Blue Mountains National Park in NSW I spent a day wandering around, and photographing in, the town of Lithgow. It was a walking back into history: the long road to an industrial past of the early twentieth century.
Lithgow is an old coal mining town . Coal, railways and steel were put together in Lithgow prior to 1914. Lithgow was the historic powerhouse of Australia’s early industrial revolution.
The blast furnace and steelworks operations at Lithgow were closed, dismantled and relocated to Port Kembla in 1928 with the physical removal of the blast furnaces completed by 1932. Port Kembla currently stands as Australia’s last working primary steelworks
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