Sidestreet gift store Control Room at Ashio

Control Room at Ashio

The quarry void at Hornsby Quarry drops away into darkness

The Spotswood site operated under four corporate names across more than 100 years before glass manufacturing wound down and the buildings fell silent

Guards Compartment at Eveleigh

Light coming through broken windows catches the peeling paint on the walls

Sidestreet gift store Control Room at AshioA narrow sidestreet cuts through the quiet heart of Yubari, overhead power lines forming a dense web against a grey Hokkaido sky. Timber frame buildings line the deserted path, their corrugated steel facades rusted and buckled. Yubari's coal industry sustained a peak population of around 107,972 before the last mine closed in 1990. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.