Shelving wool Refinery at Ashio

Refinery at Ashio

seen from above

sustaining an entire company town through most of the twentieth century

and a red indicator hand on the rear dial

its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure

Shelving wool Refinery at AshioRust streaked metal shelving lines both sides of a narrow storeroom aisle, terminating at a corrugated metal wall. The floorboards beneath are darkened and warped from water ingress. A partially legible sign on the left unit shows fragments including '000' and 'FIR RIG E', its full message worn past reading. Awaba Colliery operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.