Living Quarters Size:S coated in dust and discoloured

coated in dust and discoloured with age

The wards were part of a pavilion-type layout designed from 1880 for moral therapy

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

built to carry the weight of industrial milling machinery across multiple floors

the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia

Living Quarters Size:S coated in dust and discolouredA fusuma panel lies collapsed across the tatami matting of a residential room in the Ogurawa settlement, Nichitsu Mining Village. Shoji screens remain upright against the far wall, alongside built in shelving. Company housing at the settlement was stratified by rank, with workers' blocks and managers' residences each built to different standards. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.