Theatre snow Rusting machinery and crumbling concrete

Rusting machinery and crumbling concrete mark the Power House corner at Portland Cement Works

Graffiti marks the casing

The boiler house once held four Babcock and Wilcox boilers

Precision engineering for racecourse totalisator systems once ran the length of this room

display panel long dead

Theatre snow Rusting machinery and crumbling concreteRows of broken seats face a proscenium arch inside the Akaiwa Cultural Hall, dust settled across the decaying floor as light falls through gaps in the roof. The hall served the Ogurawa settlement's workforce and families during the decades when Chichibu Mine operated at full capacity. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.