Bottles railways later as a hospital for

later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill

fewer than 10

Bar Floor at Pyrmont

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

Sunlight breaks through a broken window into a room where vines have taken over the walls and floor

Bottles railways later as a hospital forGlass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures, left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006. Chichibu Mine and the company town built around it sustained families for decades before metal extraction ceased in 1978 and the settlement slowly emptied. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.