Fire Station fdark was producing bread on an

was producing bread on an industrial scale by at least 1941

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

Gateway Motel at New South Wales

Faded signage marks a quiet stretch of road in Shimizusawa Seiei-cho

Fire Station fdark was producing bread on anHard hats pile on a red steel bench inside the Nichitsu Mining Village fire station equipment shed, a spoke wheel and hand cranked siren on the concrete floor beside them. Dry leaves cover everything; the roller door stands half open. The shed formed part of the Ogurawa settlement's internal fire brigade infrastructure, which served a community that once numbered well over 2,000 people. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.