Adventure Room feeder throwing a hard lens flare

throwing a hard lens flare through the decay

Photographed 2019

its tiled interior cracked and rusted pipes exposed beneath shafts of natural light through broken windows

The wards were part of a pavilion-type layout designed from 1880 for moral therapy

Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre

Adventure Room feeder throwing a hard lens flareThe Adventure Room stood at the entrance of the Coal Mining History Village, a small gabled building boarded with timber slats, its sign still advertising coin lockers and baby beds in red lettering above Japanese text. Part of the Sekitan no Rekishi Mura complex built between 1978 and 1983 as Yubari's pivot from coal to tourism, the facility was shuttered after the city's 2007 fiscal rehabilitation. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.