Electronics Drawers machinery the site once employed hundreds

the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock

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

their weathered metal surfaces bearing the slow deterioration of decades without use

The hall served the Ogurawa settlement's workforce and families during the decades when Chichibu Mine operated at full capacity

Electronics Drawers machinery the site once employed hundredsTimber parts drawers in a storage cabinet, most hanging open and empty, their labels still legible: Power Boards, Special LEDs, Nicads, Torch Bulb Holders, Telephone Wires. Debris has collected on the floor below. The cabinet sat within Macquarie Boys' Technology High School in Rydalmere, a government school that operated from 1958 until its closure in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.