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Photographed 2018

Part of the infrastructure built to sustain a community of miners and their families through the peak decades of Chichibu Mine

their dark windows and faded cladding set against a grey winter sky

Iron Flywheel Cutter painted windows 000 kW generatorsA cast iron flywheel cutter, its spoked wheel and toothed arc still intact, sits in long grass outside the four storey mill at Mill Pond Farm. The machinery was supplied for the Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills when Charles Dransfield opened the mill in January 1860, with engineering works by P. N. Russell and Co. of Sydney. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.