Dining Table Size:L the factory ran for approximately

the factory ran for approximately six decades before corporate rationalisation ended production in the late 1990s

the treads grey and splintered

Pig Kill Floor at Blayney

Faded garments hang on a washing line inside a deteriorating room in the Ogurawa settlement's company housing

from 1957 until 28 March 2010

Dining Table Size:L the factory ran for approximatelyDust coats a dining table and chairs inside a company residence at the Ogurawa settlement, Nichitsu Mining Village, the remote community in Saitama Prefecture that housed the families of Chichibu Mine workers at its peak. The settlement emptied after metal extraction ceased in 1978, with its last permanent resident leaving in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.