Kettle pastel doors Xray Machine at Kaga

Xray Machine at Kaga

A covered walkway connects sections of the library block at the former Macquarie Boys' Technology High School in Rydalmere

Stone walls still standing on a flat Monaro plain

A coiled hose reel sits against a peeling wall

replacing two earlier premises on Eastment Street where the operation began

Kettle pastel doors Xray Machine at KagaA rusted enamel kettle sits on a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's derelict company houses, its surface thick with dust. The Ogurawa settlement was built and owned by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. to house the workforce of Chichibu Mine, which operated in this remote Saitama valley from 1940 until its final closure on 30 September 2022. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.