Stairway Size:L Recovery Ward at Rozelle

Recovery Ward at Rozelle

debris covers the floor

after the Robertson Land Acts opened Crown land to smallholders

The purpose-built factory on Arthurton Road opened in 1926 and operated as Purnell Shoe Company through the 1970s

Stairway Size:L Recovery Ward at RozelleA narrow stairway climbs through a decaying timber frame structure in Yubari City, its walls stripped back to bare plaster and peeling paint, dust settled thick on every horizontal surface. Buildings like this one housed the families of miners who worked the coalfields at the city's peak. Coal mining in Yubari ran from the 1890s until the last mine closed in 1990. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.