This sign was placed as the men came to work and changed cloths for work pretty advanced thinking for the 1800 1900 hundreds below ground there was horse stables for the pit ponies the stables housed 200 ponies at a time above ground paddocks for six hundred at any one time plus grow all there feed on site as well he was using too much electric power so he built a power plant and supplied Newcastle and most of the hunter valley power had trouble supply with ships taking coal too client's around the world so built his own ships ended up having one of the largest shipping fleets in the world after he died it was all sold broken down and was the foundation for coal allied
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