Bottles railways Weathered timber and corrugated iron

Weathered timber and corrugated iron

every surface coated in grease and fine debris

By 1973 the bakery above was producing six thousand dozen rolls per hour and around 100 varieties of bread

6% of NSW container trade

Sunlight breaks through a broken window into a room where vines have taken over the walls and floor

Bottles railways Weathered timber and corrugated ironGlass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures, left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006. Chichibu Mine and the company town built around it sustained families for decades before metal extraction ceased in 1978 and the settlement slowly emptied. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.