Genkan Type:Unframed the steam-driven plant once ran

the steam-driven plant once ran four Babcock and Wilcox boilers

sunlight pressing through grimy windows onto the wreckage below

This sub-basement level once supported the engine house that

The building was already a shell by 2015

Peeling paint and industrial residue coat the walls of a space that once handled Holden aftersales work for Sydney's North Shore

Genkan Type:Unframed the steam-driven plant once ranA genkan inside the Ogurawa settlement, a pair of shoes left on the step under a layer of dust, the entryway open to fading light. Company housing at Chichibu Mine served a community of workers and families who built their lives around the mine's fortunes. When metal extraction ceased in 1978, families began leaving; the last permanent resident departed in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.