Boys Yokosu blacktown catching dust in the air

catching dust in the air above worn floorboards

The plant closed permanently in August 1988

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

Seika Dormitory stood sealed in Bunkyo-ku for another six years before demolition in 2013

The building is part of the pastoral infrastructure of southern New South Wales

Boys Yokosu blacktown catching dust in the airA lone desk sits beneath a window in Boys Yokosu, sunlight cutting through the dust settling across scattered textbooks. The room is one of the former classrooms in this three storey reinforced concrete building, originally Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School, which opened in 1975 and closed just eight years later as the coal economy emptied the city of its families. Part of the Family School Fureai series.