When permission for the building of mining infrastructure on the headland was given by the government in the 1960’s, it was on condition that when mining was finished this land be rehabilitated and returned to open space.
The area was once far larger than it is today and included courthouse, operating police station, shops and post offices.
As expected of a town of its age, the town has experienced a series of dramatic events that have affected its population and size: fires that wiped out Mine Camp and Moonee Beach and the recent 2013 fire, two storms that on each occasion demolished the jetty, relocation of services and houses from the town, house that have fallen down or fallen into mine shafts, houses that have been condemned, the strike breaks, and the depression.
Despite all this, the town and its setting was listed in 2010 as being of state heritage significance… one of only two towns in NSW of this status.
The photos of houses that are attached to residences in Flowers Drive, Colliery Drive, Northwood Road, Clarke Street and Lindsley St were taken in 2004.