Locker Room historical machinery left where it stood

machinery left where it stood

Concrete stairs descend into the lower levels of the Former Standard Brickworks

its concrete walls and steel frames showing the wear of decades of active quarrying

Dust has settled across the floorboards

Locker Room historical machinery left where it stoodRusting metal lockers line the walls of a worker changing room in the Ogurawa settlement, their doors hanging open on corroded hinges. The room was part of the company infrastructure built by Nitchitsu to support miners at Chichibu Mine, which operated under the Nichitsu group from 1937 until metal extraction ceased in 1978. Debris covers the floor. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.