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Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

The facility operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

left in place when the last train called on 26 March 1986

Eleven at Lake Macquarie

extracting blue metal aggregate under a succession of operators

Plate Room milky way galaxy Glass bottles line a woodenStacks of discarded glass plates sit heavily on the shelves of the plate room at the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood, each surface thick with settled dust. Light coming through broken windows catches the peeling paint on the walls. Part of the O I Glass series.