Overgrowth Size:XS Summer Hill

Summer Hill

Heavy steel gates rusted shut at the main entrance to the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

its lettering faded but still legible

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

Overgrowth Size:XS Summer HillConcrete worker housing sits hard against the forested slope at the Ogurawa settlement, dry grass standing chest high between the buildings. The structures belong to the company town grid that Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. built around Chichibu Mine from the late 1930s. The last permanent resident left the settlement in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.