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Hard hats pile on a red steel bench inside the Nichitsu Mining Village fire station equipment shed

their tops open to the sky

the machinery below sitting silent under rust and dust

photographed in 2018 with paint peeling back from the walls in thick

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

Plough dragon inn Hard hats pile on aA rusted farm plough sitting on open grazing land near the former Elrington Colliery site, outside Abernethy. The land surrounding the closed colliery has been used for agriculture since the mine shut in December 1962. Where coal once moved underground through two concrete lined shafts to supply BHP's Newcastle steelworks, the surface has long since returned to pasture. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.