Living Quarters Alley writing and United States Navy vessels

and United States Navy vessels from 1897 until 1999

which ran from 1902 until cement production stopped in November 1991

Sunlight cuts through the windows of a derelict studio inside the Ogurawa settlement

Painted Exterior Advertisement at Pyrmont

Living Quarters Alley writing and United States Navy vesselsA narrow alleyway cuts between the crumbling concrete walls of the Ogurawa settlement's worker housing, overgrown vegetation pressing in from either side. The company housing once sheltered miners and their families at the height of Chichibu Mine's operations, when the valley held a population of more than 2,000. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.