Moss Carpet timber Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived at

Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived at Port Kembla in 1972

Empty desks and chairs stand in rows beneath windows that still let the light in

Concrete columns rise floor to ceiling

light filtering through the grime to what lies below

processing condensed milk

Moss Carpet timber Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived atA classroom floor at Family School Fureai, Yubari, covered wall to wall in dense green moss. The building opened as Asahi Elementary School in 1975, closed after just eight years as Yubari's mining population collapsed, then operated as group lodging under Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. from around 1994 until 2006. Part of the Family School Fureai series.