Living Quarters Alley writing Painted Exterior Advertisement at Pyrmont

Painted Exterior Advertisement at Pyrmont

Sunlight cuts through the windows of a derelict studio inside the Ogurawa settlement

A metal filing cabinet stands inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory

built and owned by Nitchitsu Co

Living Quarters Alley writing Painted Exterior Advertisement at PyrmontA narrow alleyway cuts between the crumbling concrete walls of the Ogurawa settlement's worker housing, overgrown vegetation pressing in from either side. The company housing once sheltered miners and their families at the height of Chichibu Mine's operations, when the valley held a population of more than 2,000. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.