Jirochofuji And Mabutanohaha Colour:Raw Paint at Yarraville

Paint at Yarraville

Two corrugated iron farm buildings sit low in a paddock

Loose wiring drops from the ceiling

A timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow

operating as Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports contracted Melbourne's footwear industry

Jirochofuji And Mabutanohaha Colour:Raw Paint at YarravilleTwo statues stand in Yubari, Hokkaido, figures of Jirochofuji and Mabutanohaha, a father and mother cast in the image of the city's coal mining families. Their surfaces carry the marks of decades of Hokkaido winters. Coal was discovered in the Yubari basin in 1888; by the 1953 peak, close to 19,500 miners worked the seams. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.