Matsuya pool Rusting beams and abandoned control

Rusting beams and abandoned control panels fill the Slab Caster Plant at Port Kembla Steelworks

A cast iron brick press stands idle in the main hall of Box Hill Brickworks

has gathered decades of dust

shows tiled walls streaked with grime and broken windows casting a flat

Matsuya pool Rusting beams and abandoned controlThe Matsuya building stands on a quiet Yubari street, its faded signage and shuttered entrance intact above a footpath that sees little traffic now. Once part of the commercial fabric of a city that housed more than 107,000 people at its 1960 peak, it is one of many former businesses left standing as Yubari's population fell toward fewer than 6,000. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.