Wireless Colour:N/A The post-war mining-town vernacular that

The post-war mining-town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields

It never did

Forty years before the 2016 photograph

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

A weathered structure at Waratah Park gives way to the encroaching scrub of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Wireless Colour:N/A The post-war mining-town vernacular thatAn obsolete wireless receiver sits abandoned on a surface inside Leichhardt House, its cracked casing and frayed wires coated in dust. The set dates occupation of this c. 1890 slab hut to at least the mid twentieth century, long after the building's original domestic life gave way to agricultural use. Part of the Leichhardt House series.