Main Entrance Type:Acrylic The settlement

The settlement

Structures like this were built for immediate need: shelter from the elements

to support the Chichibu Mine workforce

one of the abandoned selector's cottages and pastoral dwellings photographed across rural New South Wales

Clinic at Rozelle

Main Entrance Type:Acrylic The settlementDense mountain foliage presses in on either side of the main entrance to the Ogurawa settlement, the concrete threshold weathered and overgrown. This was the gateway to a company town built deep in the upper Nakatsugawa valley by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd., where thousands of workers and their families lived and laboured at Chichibu Mine. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.