Engine Room Facade feathers A green beauty salon sign

A green beauty salon sign still clings to the upper facade of a two-storey commercial building in Yubari

peeling paint

Station No

which opened in 1975 and closed just eight years later as the coal economy emptied the city of its families

beneath a ceiling of collapsed tiles and loose strip lighting

Engine Room Facade feathers A green beauty salon signThe engine room facade at Peters Creameries Pty Ltd Factory, Chatham, stands under direct sunlight, corrugated iron panels weathered and faded across decades of exposure. Built in 1938 1939 by contractor D. Gallagher, the steam driven plant once ran four Babcock and Wilcox boilers. Part of the Peters' Ice Cream Factory series.