Boys Yokosu blacktown A 1969 fire gutted its

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

Bare trees line the hillside behind

and farm machinery across the southern Monaro tablelands for 65 years

the reinforced concrete building operated for 80 years before a 2007 fire displaced its remaining residents

Boiler Room at Rozelle

Boys Yokosu blacktown A 1969 fire gutted itsA lone desk sits beneath a window in Boys Yokosu, sunlight cutting through the dust settling across scattered textbooks. The room is one of the former classrooms in this three storey reinforced concrete building, originally Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School, which opened in 1975 and closed just eight years later as the coal economy emptied the city of its families. Part of the Family School Fureai series.