Back Steps sliding door closed after just eight years

closed after just eight years as Yubari's mining population collapsed

stands on timber posts against the open hills of rural New South Wales

its paint peeling back in layers that chart decades of disuse

The communal bathhouse was built to serve miners and their families in the Ogurawa settlement

Bare timber

Back Steps sliding door closed after just eight yearsTimber steps descend from a deck at the rear of the Ranger Headquarters, the 1967 timber frame building at the heart of Waratah Park, Duffys Forest. Red painted weatherboard walls rise behind them, and brick paving below shows years of cracking and stain. Bush presses in from all sides, reclaiming the margins of a site that once hosted one of Australia's most widely broadcast television productions. Part of the Waratah Park series.