Old vs New Size:XS the largest steam-powered water pumping

the largest steam-powered water pumping station in Australia when it opened in 1921

The shed is one of the remnant crusher plant buildings from a quarry that supplied crushed dolerite to northern Sydney's roads from around 1905 until 2002

producing around 100 bread varieties from a 65-foot oven before the building was abandoned and ultimately demolished

pressing machinery and workbenches still at their stations

blades thick with accumulated dust

Old vs New Size:XS the largest steam-powered water pumpingA timber frame building, its corrugated steel cladding rusted from decades of Hokkaido winters, stands directly alongside a newer utilitarian structure in a Yubari streetscape. The contrast is typical of a city that has been quietly rebuilding in places while much of its post war fabric continues to deteriorate. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.