Boys Yokosu blacktown Bare trees line the hillside

Bare trees line the hillside behind

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

the structure had reached advanced dereliction

and farm machinery across the southern Monaro tablelands for 65 years

An open book

Boys Yokosu blacktown Bare trees line the hillsideA 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.