Living Room deep The shaft drove a single

The shaft drove a single 4-blade propeller approximately 2

and the population has been falling ever since

relocated from storage at Royalla and repainted since arrival

layers of peeling paint recording decades of disuse

Fading student artwork still covers the walls

Living Room deep The shaft drove a singleDust laden furniture and peeling wallpaper in a company house at Nichitsu's Ogurawa settlement, photographed in 2016. The residential area was built by the mine operator to house workers and their families at full capacity in the 1960s, and emptied as metal extraction wound down. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.